Singer, conductor, and educator Nate Widelitz has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Singapore’s Esplanade, and Osaka’s Izumi Hall under the batons of Gustavo Dudamel, Franz Welser-Möst, Nicholas McGegan, Masaaki Suzuki, and Helmuth Rilling. He has collaborated with Bach Collegium Japan, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Cleveland Orchestra and Grammy Award-winning artists such as Kelley O’Connor and Ingrid Michaelson.
Recent successes include Nate’s appointments, in 2017, as Assistant Conductor of Pacific Chorale and a faculty member at California State University, Los Angeles, his solo singing debut at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and his debut on the podium with an all-professional ensemble as guest director of the Horizon Chamber Choir. 2018 will see Nate assume direction of the Collegiate Chorale at Mt. San Antonio College and the Philharmonic Choir at Los Angeles Valley College, make his conducting debut with Pacific Chorale at Segerstrom Concert Hall, and begin his appointment as a faculty member at Pierce College.
Holding degrees in Vocal Arts from the University of Southern California and Choral Conducting from Yale University, Nate spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he conducted research and authored a thesis on the women’s dvuglas music of the Shopski Kray region. He has since taught music at every level from fourth grade through college, led choirs on tours of Italy and Austria, and sung professionally as a soloist in New York, San Francisco, Hartford, and Los Angeles.
Recent successes include Nate’s appointments, in 2017, as Assistant Conductor of Pacific Chorale and a faculty member at California State University, Los Angeles, his solo singing debut at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and his debut on the podium with an all-professional ensemble as guest director of the Horizon Chamber Choir. 2018 will see Nate assume direction of the Collegiate Chorale at Mt. San Antonio College and the Philharmonic Choir at Los Angeles Valley College, make his conducting debut with Pacific Chorale at Segerstrom Concert Hall, and begin his appointment as a faculty member at Pierce College.
Holding degrees in Vocal Arts from the University of Southern California and Choral Conducting from Yale University, Nate spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he conducted research and authored a thesis on the women’s dvuglas music of the Shopski Kray region. He has since taught music at every level from fourth grade through college, led choirs on tours of Italy and Austria, and sung professionally as a soloist in New York, San Francisco, Hartford, and Los Angeles.