Nathan Swift
Voice Type :
Tenor
E-mail Address :
nathan.swift@gmail.com
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Born in Hollis, New Hampshire, USA, NATHAN SWIFT began vocal studies under Erma Gattie Mellinger at Dartmouth College and continued his training at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin Conservatory with Max von Egmond, Nancy Zylstra and Derek Lee Ragin.
Nathan has recently completed the Postgraduate Diploma Course at the Royal College of Music in London, supported by Dartmouth College’s coveted James B. Reynolds Scholarship for Foreign Study and he now studies with acclaimed baritone, Russell Smythe. Whilst at the RCM, he participated in masterclasses with Philip Langridge, Dame Malvina Major, Roger Vignoles, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, John Blakely, Laurence Cummings, and Justin Lavender.
Nathan has frequently appeared as a soloist with Dartmouth’s vocal ensembles and toured internationally to Germany, Austria, and Japan. He has recorded the world premiere of Charles Dodge's Musica on the Boston Vocal Artists label with Le Groupe Vocale de St. Denis. He has also appeared as a soloist with numerous choral societies around the UK, in repertoire that has included Haydn's Nelson Mass, Berlioz's Chant Sacré, the Schütz Musikalische Exequien, Pergolesi’s Magnificat, Bach’s Sleepers Wake and Beethoven's Mass in C, and recently appeared as tenor soloist in Vaughan William’s Serenade to Music at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.
His operatic engagements have included the roles of Sailor Dido and Aeneas for Dartmouth Opera, Slender The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai) for Opera South and Second Farmer Marthe (Flotow) for Opera de Bauge, France. He has appeared in scenes as Ferrando Cosi fan Tutte, Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi and Jacquino Fidelio at the RCM and in the Ensemble in Anna Bolena (Donizetti) for the Tower of London Festival, Carmen for Opera North (USA), Faust for Opera Omnibus, Sosarme (Handel) for the London Handel Festival, Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Royal College of Music's Soirée d'Or with Gerald Finley, and Pearl Fishers with Opera de Baugé, France.
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