Nathan Fletcher’s music has been described as "melodious, neo-Romantic” (Anne Midgette, The Washington Post), “haunting... [and] genuinely moving…” (Katie Stanton, The Oxford Student). In 2017, Washington National Opera commissioned Nathan to compose an original chamber opera, A Bridge for Three, in collaboration with librettist Megan Cohen. Bridge premiered at the Kennedy Center and was subsequently produced by Hartford Opera Theater (2018) and at Texas Christian University (2019).

Nathan composed the music for two short opera films written and directed by Adam Taylor – Someone Like Me (L'opera di Facebook) and Rumspringawakening – which were both included in Opera Philadelphia’s inaugural film screening series at Festival O22, having been selected from more than 800 submissions. Someone Like Me has been described as a “must-see” (Jenna Simeonov, Schmopera) and “charming, dirty, irreverent, and a ton of fun” (Peter Szep, co-founder, New York Opera Alliance). Among many other film festival selections and accolades, The Facebook Opera took home the Audience Favorite and Judges’ Award prizes at the July 2018 Iron Mule Festival in Brooklyn, won Best Musical at the 2018 Orlando Film Festival, and received a Telly Award in 2018. Rumspringawakening won the Audience Favourite and Gold Medal prizes at the Autumn 2019 London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Fest, as well as a Silver Medal in the August 2019 Global Music Awards.

For his orchestral song cycle on poems by Edna Saint Vincent Millay (premiered in 2017 by soprano Maria Eleni Zollo and the Mannes Orchestra), Nathan received an Honorable Mention in the 2017 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, having been a finalist in 2015 and 2016. Nathan is a member of ASCAP.

Other places where Nathan’s compositions have been performed include Opera America’s National Opera Center in New York, The Bushnell in Hartford, the Pilch Studio Theatre (Oxford, U.K.), the New York Festival of Song’s 2016 NYFOS Next Festival, the Downtown Brooklyn Chamber Music Festival, the University of Connecticut, the 2015 ACDA National Conference in Salt Lake City, and the Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn.

Choral singing has been a formative influence on Nathan’s musical life, and he maintains an active career as an ensemble singer. Currently a tenor in the Schola Cantorum at the Church of Saint Vincent Ferrer in New York, he sang as a treble from 2002 to 2006 at Saint Thomas Church, graduating from its Choir School in 2007. He returned to Saint Thomas from 2017 to 2019 as a Gentleman of the Choir. He has sung as a regular chorister or frequent substitute at numerous houses of worship around New York and Connecticut including Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, the Basilica of Saint John the Evangelist, and Temple Emanu-El. He has also appeared with S.E.M. Ensemble, the New York Virtuoso Singers, Ensemble Origo, and as a choral background singer with Madonna (2018 Met Gala) and Sam Smith (2023 Saturday Night Live broadcast). Nathan is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, having been a finalist in its 2014 Brock Student Composition Competition.

Nathan received his B.M. summa cum laude from UConn in 2015, studying with Kenneth Fuchs, and his M.M. from the Mannes School of Music in 2017, studying with Lowell Liebermann. He is an adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York (Baruch College), where he teaches music theory and music appreciation, and directs the Baruch Chorus.

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