Resume

• 2011

  DMA

  Orchestral Conducting

  Texas Tech University

• 2004

  MFA

  Orchestral Conducting

• 2003

  Cantonese

  Mandarin

  Chinese

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  IASP

  United College

• 1997

  BA

  Thornton School of Music

  Music

  East Asian Languages and Cultures

  Daily Trojan

• Music

  Festivals

  Ensemble

  Teaching

  Piano

  Chamber Music

  Orchestral Music

  Music Education

  Contemporary Music

  Arts Administration

  Musical Theatre

  Choral Conducting

  Classical

  Performing Arts

  Musicians

  Conducting

  Higher Education

  Orchestral

  Madsen

  A versatile conductor with experience at the youth

  college

  adult amateur

  and professional level

  NATHAN MADSEN has conducted orchestras throughout the United States in programs extending from standard orchestral and operatic literature into the music of our time. \n \nHe is the Music Director of the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra in New York's Hudson River Valley. Previously

  he served as Associate Conductor of the Texas Tech University Symphony Orchestra

  Assistant Conductor of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra

  and on the conducting staff of the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra. \n \nA dedicated educator

  in August 2014 he will join the faculty of the University of Tampa as a full-time Visiting Professor. He has also taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Bard College

  and Texas Tech University

  in addition to serving as a clinician with several youth orchestras including the Empire State Youth Orchestra

  Albuquerque Youth Symphony

  Tuacahn High School for the Performing Arts

  and the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony. \n \nA strong and passionate advocate of new compositions

  his programming with the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra has drawn attention to that orchestra's longstanding tradition of promoting new American music. He has also made numerous appearances at the Bard Conductor's Institute Composer-Conductor Week

  where composers and conductors are brought together to perform world premieres.\n \nHe holds degrees from the University of Southern California and Bard College

  and currently he is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Orchestral Conducting from Texas Tech University. His primary teachers have been David Becker

  Andrew George

  Harold Farberman

  Larry Livingston

  and Hans Beer. He has also participated in masterclasses with Mark Heron and Tim Reynish at the Royal Northern College of Music in the United Kingdom

  and with Gustav Meier and Marin Alsop at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.

  Nathan

  Lubbock Symphony Orchestra

  Southwest Symphony Orchestra

  Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra

  The University of Tampa

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Woodstock Chamber Orchestra

  Bard College

  Interac Co.

  Ltd. (Japan)

  Texas Tech University

  I cover all subscription concert repertoire

  conduct the orchestra on education and pops concerts

  and oversee personnel management and concert production for the orchestra.

  Assistant Conductor

  Lubbock

  Texas Area

  Lubbock Symphony Orchestra

  I conducted the Rensselaer Symphony Orchestra in two concerts each semester at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy

  NY.

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Texas Tech University

  Lubbock

  Texas Area

  I am a teaching assistant for the University Symphony Orchestra

  and the music director of the University String Orchestra at Texas Tech University.

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  I ran the admission shop for the Bard Conservatory

  and liaised with my colleagues in the College's Office of Admission to recruit the most gifted musician-scholars in the country to join us in this new program. \n\nThe Bard Conservatory is the only music school in the United States that requires all of its students to simultaneously earn a B.Music degree in performance or composition and a B.Arts degree in a liberal arts/science discipline. It is a small

  highly selective

  ambitious program

  and in my role as the admissions person I helped shape the character of the institution.

  Bard College

  Adjunct Faculty

  I conducted the Bard Orchestra

  which performed four concerts annually in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

  a visually striking and acoustically superb venue designed by Frank Gehry. The orchestra performed a variety of repertoire

  from Boccherini and Beethoven to Ruth Crawford Seeger and Joan Tower. In addition

  I was an administrator in the Bard College Conservatory of Music

  where I was responsible for its admissions and recruiting.

  Bard College

  Overseas Recruitment Coordinator

  Recruit

  interview

  and recommend English teachers for hire to work in the Japanese public school system.

  Interac Co.

  Ltd. (Japan)

  Staff Conductor

  Lead sectional and full rehearsals of the orchestra; adjudicate annual concerto competition

  Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra

  Principal Guest Conductor

  I occasionally travel to southern Utah to conduct the Southwest Symphony in subscription concerts.

  Southwest Symphony Orchestra

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  The University of Tampa

  Woodstock Chamber Orchestra

  Woodstock

  NY

  I am the fourth Music Director in the WCO's 33-year history. I work with the board of directors and the orchestra's musicians to bring thrilling concerts to music-lovers of the Hudson Valley.

  Music Director