Nathan John Michel // Curriculum Vitae
Education
Princeton University • 2002-2007, Ph.D.
Yale University, School of Music • 2000-2002, M.M.
Royal Conservatory of The Hague, The Netherlands, composition studies with Louis Andriessen • 1997-1998
Bowdoin College • 1993-1997, B.A. Summa cum laude
Episcopal High School • 1989-1993
Awards and Fellowships
Naumburg Fellowship, Princeton University • 2002-2007
Forbes College Graduate Student Fellow, Princeton University • 2003-2004
Morton Gould Young Composer Award, ASCAP • 2003
Charles Ives Scholarship, The American Academy of Arts and Letters • 2002
Ezra Laderman Prize, Yale University • 2002
Rena Greenwald Memorial Prize, Yale University • 2001
Morton Gould Young Composer Awards (honorable mention), ASCAP • 2001
Rena Greenwald Memorial Fellowship, Yale University • 2000-2001
Deems Taylor Award (received while assistant editor of NewMusicBox), ASCAP • 1999
O’Brien Graduate Scholarship, Bowdoin College • 1997
Dorothy Haythorne Collins Award for Music, Bowdoin College • 1996
Charles C. Plummer Award for Music, Episcopal High School • 1993
Patrick H. Callaway Prize for Theology, Episcopal High School • 1992
Professional Experience
Freelance Composer • Brooklyn, NY
Composed and produced music for film and advertising. Clients included Nike, Nokia, Barclays and many more • 2007-2014
Hospitality • Brooklyn, NY
Producer, arranger, composer, drummer, guitarist and keyboardist for internationally acclaimed band
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Music Theory Through Performance and Composition, Assistant Instructor • Fall 2006
Music Composition Senior Thesis Writing Group, Instructor • Fall 2006
Music Since 1945, Assistant Instructor • Fall 2004
When Music is Made, Assistant Instructor • Spring & Fall 2003
Forbes College, Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Graduate Student Fellow • 2003-2004
Yale University • New Haven, CT
Multimedia Art and Technology, Assistant Instructor • Fall 2001 - Spring 2002
American Music Center • New York, NY
NewMusicBox, Associate Editor • 1999-2000
Milken Archive • New York, NY
Archivist • 1998
Bowdoin College • Brunswick, ME
Music Library, Student Librarian • 1994-1997
Piccolo Spoleto Festival • Charleston, SC
Charles Ives Center Contemporary Music Festival, Events Coordinator • Summer 1994 & 1995
Discography
Solo Releases
The Beast (CD) Sonig/Skipp • 2005
The Beast (CD, Japanese version) Headz • 2005
Alphabet Series C (7" vinyl) Tomlab • 2004
Trebly (CDr) Mr. Mutt • 2003
Dear Bicycle (CD) Tigerbeat6 • 2003
Abc Def (CD) Tigerbeat6 • 2002
Compilations
The Tomlab Alphabet Singles Series (30x7” + Box) “A to B” / “Planet”, Tomlab • 2012
Den Nørrejyske Øs Stororkester For Opløst Mønstermusik (32xFile) “Untitled”, NSOM • 2011
Sonig Boxset Thing (2xCD + Box) “A to B”, Sonig • 2011
52 Weeks (52xFile) “Time to Fire Isiah”, Peppermill • 2008
Revolver USA Sampler Summer ’05 (CD) “A to B”, Revolver USA •2005
Planet Of The Fight Club (12" vinyl) “Untitled” (remix by Emeric Aelters), Tigerbeat6 • 2005
The Forbidden 80s (CD) “Suds”, Mr. Mutt • 2004
The 2nd Coco Waffle Flake (CD) “Tess”, Skipp • 2003
Open Up And Say...@<%_|^[!] (CD) “Rings”, Tigerbeat6 • 2003
Tigerbeat6: Paws Across America (CD) “Magellan”, Tigerbeat6 • 2002
And The Beat Goes Off! (CD) “Hello (Constant Sorrow)”, Tigerbeat6/Wire Magazine • 2001
Releases with Hospitality
Trouble (CD/LP) Merge • 2014
Inauguration (Super Timeline Version) (7” vinyl) Merge •2014
Traps and Arrows (7” vinyl) Polyvinyl • 2014
The Drift / Monkey (7” vinyl) Merge • 2012
Hospitality (CD/LP) Merge •2012
Tiny Desk Concert (File) National Public Radio •2012
Compositions and Select Performances
Offshore (2014) for string quartet.
Commissioned by the Pannonia Quartet for the Ecstatic Music Festival, New York • January 31, 2014
Hospitality (2011-2014)
Over 100 performances throughout North America and Europe, including appearances at major festivals such as Primavera in Barcelona, Osheaga in Montreal, Sasquatch in Washington state, Roskilde in Denmark, Treasure Island in San Francisco and many more. Other performance venues include the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, the Bowery Ballroom in New York, the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and the Troubadour in Los Angeles
Morning Minutes (2010-2012)
Three volume album for analog synthesizer, turntable, cassette tape and guitars
Not a Shadow (2010) Written for the Now Ensemble
Renee Weiler Concert Hall, New York, NY• February 25, 2010
Charleston, SC • September 23, 2010
Strathmore, MD • September 27, 2010
Mumble (2006) commissioned by PLOrk (Princeton Laptop Orchestra) for fifteen laptop computers
Princeton University • May 2, 2006
Orchestras of Sameness Festival, Dartmouth University • May 6, 2006
Piece With Rising and Falling (2000, revised 2006) for solo piano
Margaret Kampmeier, piano • Princeton University, May 3, 2006
Very Titanically (2006) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Bowdoin College • November 10, 2007
Network for New Music, Princeton University • April 26, 2006
The Beast Transcriptions (2005) for large ensemble
Tactus Ensemble, Princeton University • February 22, 2005
The Beast Songbook (2005)
Elektronisk Jazzjuice (Århus International Jazz Festival) • Århus, Denmark • July 21, 2006
Kulkafeen • Copenhagen, Denmark • July 23, 2006
Écoutes au Vert Festival • Geneva, Switzerland • July 26, 2006
Safe as Milk Festival • Haugesund, Norway • July 29, 2006
PA’s • Boston, MA • May 11, 2005
Rothko • New York, NY • May 9, 2005
Kunsthalle Salon des Amateurs • Düsseldorf, Germany • March 19, 2005
Walvis • Brussels, Belgium • March 18, 2005
La Condition Publique • Roubaix, France • March 17, 2005
STEIM • Amsterdam, The Netherlands • March 15, 2005
The Beast (2005) CD (Dust, Planet, A to B, The Beast, Ram, Status Dive, Suds, Simple Animal, Ernasel, Cricket)
Mock-up (2004) for electric guitar, piano, percussion, MAX/MSP, Princeton University • April 30, 2004
Trebly (2003) CD
WFMU, live performance • Dec 10, 2003
Terrace Club • Princeton, NJ • October 21, 2003
Friendship House • Philadelphia, PA • May 22, 2003
Princeton, NJ • May 7, 2003
Trebly, acoustic version (2003) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone, piano, Princeton University • November 22, 2003
Dear Bicycle (2003) CD (Theme Song, Star-Spangled, Tell, 2000, Glide, Rings, Magellan Fields, I Delight in What is Right, On the Monorail, Telegraph)
Overgaden Sound Art Festival • Copenhagen, Denmark • September, 2004
Knitting Factory • New York, NY • August 15, 2004
Repellent Festival • New York, NY • March 29, 2004
Tonic • New York, NY • February 15, 2004
Fanfare (2003) commissioned for the Bicentennial of The Post and Courier, for two trumpets, two trombones, and tuba; Charleston, SC • January 10, 2003
Shelter (2002) for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, vibraphone, piano; Princeton University • May 20, 2003
ABC DEF (2002) CD, (Hello [Constant Sorrow], Sixteen, Pound Louder, Untitled, Where Do Some Small Birds Live?, Mars Like a Rock, Hosey, Thirtysix to Fortytwo, Mufice, Tones Pathetique)
Tonic • New York, NY • January 25, 2003
Village Tavern • Charleston, SC • November 17, 2002
SubTonic • New York, NY • August 30, 2002
Little Piece for Tin Whistle and Computer (2002) for two tin whistles, keyboard, MAX/MSP
Interfaced Cultures Festival • Yale University • May, 2002
30 One-Minute Pieces (2002) CD
Videominuto Festival • Prato, Italy (excerpt) • September, 2002
Little Piece in Two Parts (2002) for two marimbas
Yale University • April 25, 2002
Oberlin College • July 9, 2002
The Function of the Picture (2001) for two tenors, oboe, two clarinets, trumpet, two violins, viola, cello, glockenspiel, piano, text by Jacques Lacan
Yale University • February 7, 2002
Three Fast Pieces (2001) for piano
Yale University • April 26, 2001
Megaphone (2000) for clarinet, marimba, piano
Ensemble Breekbaar • Chicago, IL • September 13, 2006
Yale University • February 1, 2001
Three Ideas For One Piano (1995) for piano
Bussotti Festival • The Hague, The Netherlands • May 21, 1998
Bowdoin College • May, 1997
Dimly, Very Dimly (1997) for three oboes
De Ijsbreker • Amsterdam, The Netherlands • December 12, 1997
Ruins True Refuge (1997) for SATB choir, text by Samuel Beckett
Bowdoin College • May 12, 1997
One Way of Looking at the Same Thing (1994) for flute, clarinet, horn, cello, percussion, piano
Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music • Brunswick, ME • July, 1996
Music for the Good Person of Sezuan (1994) for flute, violin, two percussionists, singers, actors
Written for the Bowdoin College Production of Brecht’s The Good Person of Sezuan • May 1995
Poor Cow (1988-1993)
Over forty rock and experimental pieces recorded with a multi-track tape recorder
Bibliography
Baird, Robert: “Hospitality: Indie Pop’s Freshest Sounds” • Stereophile June 2014
Conklin, Mike: “Trouble Makers: Talking With Hospitality” • The L Magazine, Cover story January 2014
Matos, Michaelangelo: “Brooklyn Band Hospitality Have a Shimmering New Album” • Capital New York February 3, 2012
Bei Der Klein, Ralf: “Nathan Michel, The Nice Guy and The Beast” • Spex Magazine June 2005
Balzer, Jens: “Aus einem Hobbykeller in New Jersey” • Berliner Zeitung June 8, 2005
Mandel, Eric: “Nathan Michel: Vor dem Beast is nach dem Beast” • Jazzthetik Magazine May 2005
Raffeiner, Arno: “Nathan Michel, Popmonster” • Intro Magazine May 2005
Shih, Howard: “Nathan Michel” • Grooves Magazine Issue 17, 2005
Tenaglia, Francesco: “Avant pop elettronico” • Blow Up Magazine Issue 21, 2005
Thoben, Jan: “I am definitely not Bob Dylan” • Goon Magazine Summer 2005
Miscellaneous
• Technology skills: MAX/MSP, Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton Live, Reason, Finale, Sibelius, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and many others
• Professional affiliations and ensembles: ASCAP, American Society of Authors and Publishers , PLOrk (Princeton Laptop Orchestra)