Nathan Madsen
Tampa, FL
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.
A dedicated educator, in August 2014 he begins teaching at the University of Tampa. Prior to that he was at Texas Tech University, where he served as the associate conductor of the TTU Symphony Orchestra, music director of the TTU String Orchestra and as the DMA orchestral conducting teaching assistant. He has also taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) and Bard College (Annandale, NY), in addition to serving as a clinician with several youth orchestras including the Empire State Youth Orchestra, Albuquerque Youth Symphony, Santa Fe Youth Symphony, Tuacahn High School for the Performing Arts and the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony.
Madsen is also the music director of the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra in New York's Hudson River Valley. Previously, he served as assistant conductor of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra and on the conducting staff of the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra. A 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.
He 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.