Nathaniel Heyder is a composer currently residing in Cleveland, Ohio. Throughout his musical career, he has been involved in various music festivals and ensembles as both composer and performer. He has served as concertmaster of the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra, the DC Youth Orchestra, and the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra. Nathaniel has also recently attended the Luzerne Music Center, the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute, the Atlantic Music Festival, and Mostly Modern Music Festival. Recognition for his compositions include the YoungArts Merit Award (2017), the Neil Rabaut Memorial Composition Scholarship from the Interlochen Arts Academy, the 2017 NextNotes High School Composition Competition award presented by the American Composer’s Forum, Honorable Mention in the Webster University CMS Young Composers Challenge, and the Emerging Composer honor in the 2020 Division 2 Young Composer Competition by Tribeca New Music. He has also been awarded both the Donald Erb Scholarship in Composition and the Gertrude E. Freeman and Lisa Freeman Roberts Memorial Fund, presented by the Cleveland Institute of Music where he currently attends as an undergraduate student. Nathaniel Heyder is a student of KeithFitch.
