Nathan James Dearden has been awarded the Santander Travel Award in association with Royal Holloway University of London for his research project in new choral music with Kamerinis moterų choras "Melos" and the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius.

During the three day project in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, he presented his work and was interviewed by Lithuanian Musicologist, Paulina Malivaikaitė (University of Arts in Belgrade) and the new all-female chorus Kamerinis moterų choras "Melos" premiered new works of composers from varying choral traditions including Nathan James Dearden's o Crux ave, spes unica [O hail the cross / our only hope].

To read a review of the concert in which Nathan's work was featured, please visit http://balticgems.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/melos-kamerinis-moteru-choras-debut-and.html

To read the full interview (in Lithuanian) with Nathan James Dearden on his music and other research interests, please visit http://www.bernardinai.lt/straipsnis/2016-03-21-vokaline-muzika-tokia-tiesi-ir-betarpiska/142175