Nathan Kelly
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Nathan Christopher Kelly |
| Origin | Houston, Texas, USA |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, orchestrator |
| Years active | 2005–present |
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Nathan Kelly is an American composer in Los Angeles, best known for working as an arranger for recording artists such as Joss Stone, Andrea Bocelli, Dionne Warwick, The Tony Awards, and film scores.[1]
Education
Kelly studied music composition at the University of Texas, film scoring at the University of Southern California, and took further education at the Juilliard School of Music, Tanglewood, Massachusetts, Aspen Music School, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Bowdoin, Maine, and the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program, Seattle.[2] His composition teachers were Tobias Picker and film composer Bruce Broughton.[1][3]
Career
In the early 2000s, Kelly began his career as an intern at Walt Disney Music Studios[4] in Kissimmee, Florida writing arrangements for the bands at Walt Disney World and proofreading.[4] After graduating college, he moved to New York City and interned for the Oprah Winfrey Broadway musical The Color Purple.[5] During this time, he worked as a pianist playing in the orchestra pit of Broadway musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera, The Wedding Singer, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Grease, Altar Boyz, Forbidden Broadway, and Radio City Music Hall.[6][7] He then studied orchestrations with Jonathan Tunick and Danny Troob and began arranging for singing artists such as Lea Salonga, Sarah Brightman, Audra McDonald, and record albums for Radio Disney, Dionne Warwick, Joss Stone, Rod Stewart, Andrea Bocelli and Jennifer Lopez.[7][8][9]
Kelly has acted as composer-in-residence at eight institutions across the United States: Ucross Foundation,[10] Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts,[11][12][12] Atlantic Center for the Arts,[13] Academy of Music in Paris, Hambidge, Woodstock, Banff Music Centre, Helene Wurlitzer and Headlands Center for the Arts.[4] His symphonic works have been premiered by the Orchestre de Paris, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra,[14] Knox-Galesburg Symphony,[15] the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Austin Symphony Orchestra, League of American Orchestras, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Missoula Symphony Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Pops, The Hollywood Bowl, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Kelly has also collaborated with conductors such as André Previn[16][17] and Randol Alan Bass.[4]
In 2010, Kelly moved to Los Angeles and attended the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program at the University of Southern California,[18] and was mentored by the film composer Thomas Newman.[18] In 2011, Kelly won the American Composers Orchestra composition contest from a national call for scores,[14] and was a finalist in the Morton Gould Young Composers Contest.[19] He was featured in ASCAP's "Playback" magazine.[4] He was also selected to participate in the ASCAP/NYU and ASCAP/LA workshops for film composers and has worked for Marc Shaiman, Stephen Schwartz and currently for David Foster.[20]
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