listen + look
Listen to music, trawl through photos,
and watch videos of projects I have been involved in
Listen up.
Discover available recordings of works by Welsh composer Nathan James Dearden here. This collection includes recent commissions, live recordings, to insights into workshops and rehearsals. Listen via the embedded SoundCloud and Spotify players here.
Nathan’s music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, Resonance FM, RTÉ lyric FM, S4C and Soho Radio, whilst also released on NMC Recordings and Delphian.
For performance enquiries or score requests, find out how you can connect with Nathan here.
on disc.
gallery | headshots + in action
Nathan is grateful to the photographers whose work is shown in these galleries. In many cases copyright in the images remains with the photographers or the organisations for which they were working at the time.
Nathan has permission to display these images, but only the headshots gallery is freely available for others to use publicly or commercially, and then only in connection with events or activities in which Nathan is personally involved. Individual photographers are identified and credited in each gallery with links to their web sites.
Full, original resolution copies of the images displayed here are available on request, if required for printed media or similar purposes. Please contact to ask for a high-resolution image.
Photography | Rupert Gough
Photography | Ellie Ajao
Photography | Ben Tomlin Photography
Photography | Catrin Arwel
Photography | Catrin Arwel
Photography | Catrin Arwel
Photography | Catrin Arwel
Smiling person with glasses in a historic church interior.
photography | Felix Alexander Bush
Co-hosting a pre-concert talk with Freddie Crowley (Artistic Director of WAF) at the Whiddon Autumn Festival in September 2023
photography | Felix Alexander Bush
Co-hosting a pre-concert talk with Freddie Crowley (Artistic Director of WAF) at the Whiddon Autumn Festival in September 2023
Guest conducting London Metropolitan University's Musarc Choir in Benjamin Tassie's 'Silvertown' at the old Carlsberg & Tetley's Factory in Silvertown, London (UK); June 2017
Photography | Ben Tomlin
Press release photo of 2019-20 NYCGB Young Composers
Guest conducting London Metropolitan University's Musarc Choir in Benjamin Tassie's 'Silvertown' at the old Carlsberg & Tetley's Factory in Silvertown, London (UK); June 2017
Photography | Ben Tomlin
Conducting Majestas Chamber Choir; Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff (UK)
Photography | Ben Tomlin
Conducting New Voices Consort for Spotlight Series: Finnissy at 70; Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway University of London (UK) in October 2016
Photography | Composer's own
Mary Dullea, Tippett Quartet and musicians of Royal Holloway University of London rehearsing two national anthems: it's not working at Kings Place, London (UK); 7 June 2017
Photography | Composer's own
With fellow NYCGB Young Composers and mentor Errollyn Wallen; Umbrella Rooms (London, UK) on 22 February 2020
Mary Dullea, Tippett Quartet and musicians of Royal Holloway University of London rehearsing two national anthems: it's not working at Kings Place, London (UK); 7 June 2017
Photography | Composer's own
In the studio at Love Electric Studio (London, UK) recording ‘Morals + Interludes’, with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain Fellowship, Ben Parry (cond.); 17 October 2020
Guest conducting London Metropolitan University's Musarc Choir in Benjamin Tassie's 'Silvertown' at the old Carlsberg & Tetley's Factory in Silvertown, London (UK); June 2017
Photography | Composer's own
Rehearsing with Swansea Philharmonic Choir, as part of Making Music UK’s Adopt-a-Composer Scheme; St. Mary’s Church, Swansea (UK) in December 2019
Working with orkest de ereprijs, VocalGeneration6 and Rob Vermeulen (cond.) at Podium Giant, Apeldoorn (Netherlands); February 2017
Guest conducting London Metropolitan University's Musarc Choir in Benjamin Tassie's 'Silvertown' at the old Carlsberg & Tetley's Factory in Silvertown, London (UK); June 2017
Photography | Composer's own
Rehearsing the Palestrina Singers of Cardiff University; St. Teilo’s, Cardiff (UK) in November 2013
Guest conducting London Metropolitan University's Musarc Choir in Benjamin Tassie's 'Silvertown' at the old Carlsberg & Tetley's Factory in Silvertown, London (UK); June 2017
Photography | Composer's own
Pictured with international baritone Jeremy Huw Williams at the National Eisteddfod Anglesey, Wales (UK); August 2017
Photography | Composer's own
Nathan James Dearden; Magnus Lindberg; 12 July 2017
Working on ‘suo’ with the National Youth Chamber Choir of Great Britain and Ben Parry (cond.); Britten Studio, Snape Maltings (UK) on 31 October 2020