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NYCGB Young Composers Scheme 2
NMC Recordings
Catalogue number: NMC DL3045
Release Date: 15 January 2021
Isolation Songbook
Delphian Records
Release Date: 26 March 2021
Catalogue No: DCD34253
gallery | headshots
Photography | Ben Tomlin Photography
Photography | Catrin Arwel
Photography | Catrin Arwel
Photography | Catrin Arwel
Photography | Chi Long Wu
Photography | Catrin Arwel
Photography | Ben Tomlin
photo credits
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.
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Press release photo of 2019-20 NYCGB Young Composers
Photography | Ben Tomlin Photography
Nathan James Dearden; Magnus Lindberg; 12 July 2017
Pictured with international baritone Jeremy Huw Williams at the National Eisteddfod Anglesey, Wales (UK); August 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
Working with orkest de ereprijs, VocalGeneration6 and Rob Vermeulen (cond.) at Podium Giant, Apeldoorn (Netherlands); February 2017
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
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
Conducting Majestas Chamber Choir; Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff (UK)
Rehearsing the Palestrina Singers of Cardiff University; St. Teilo’s, Cardiff (UK) in November 2013
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
With fellow NYCGB Young Composers and mentor Errollyn Wallen; Umbrella Rooms (London, UK) on 22 February 2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
Conducting New Voices Consort for Spotlight Series: Finnissy at 70; Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway University of London (UK) in October 2016.
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turtur (Premiere recording) Corvus Consort, Freddie Crowley (cond.) at St. James Sussex Gardens (London, UK) in December 2020, as part of the ‘Twelve Composers’ Composing’ Project
2 lost songs (World Premiere) Ensemble Hebrides; Zoë Beyers (violin) Fiona Winning (viola) William Conway (cello) Emanuel Abbühl (oboe) Festival CROSSROADS / SEM 60 7 / 12 / 2018 - Solitär - Universität Mozarteum Salzburg
Pedair Cân o Forgannwg (Premiere recording) Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Paula Fan (piano) at Acapela Studios (Cardiff, UK) in March 2020
#140: restless shadows stir (Premiere recording) Signum Quartet; Florian Donderer (violin ),; Annette Walther (violin i), Xandi van Dijk (viola), Thomas Schmitz (violoncello) at Sendesaal Bremen in February 2018
video recording/interview feat. riffs, drones, and choruses [mvt. iii: after Rob Fokkens]; video engineer, Joe Burns
Nathan Dearden was invited as a Workshop Leader as part of CoMA Festival Cardiff 2018, leading two pieces in workshop: Kerry Andrew's CoMA Blues and Robert Ashley's She Was a Visitor, the second of which culminated in a performance...
video recording of things come apart [mvt. iv: morpheus' dream]; video engineer, Joe Burns