Hello! I'm a bass-baritone, composer of vocal music, avid improviser, and leader of an experimental multidisciplinary band called DREAMGLOW.

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I'm a bass-baritone. My repertoire includes opera, concert solo, and choral. I'm especially inspired by radical new art.

As a soloist, I've enjoyed numerous appearances with The Boston Pops and Emmanuel Music, a Carnegie Hall world premiere, many performances of Bach's passions and cantatas, and a staged Fauré Requiem.

Opera highlights include performing with Esperanza Spalding in the MassMoCA world premiere of Wayne Shorter's …(Iphigenia), Mark Adamo's Lysistrata (Odyssey Opera), Handel's Alcina (MassOpera), Mozart's Don Giovanni (Boston Summer Opera), and Puccini's La bohème (Opera Maine).

I sing regularly with Skylark, Ensemble Altera, the Handel and Haydn Society, and Boston Baroque. I'm on Skylark's GRAMMY-nominated album Clear Voices in the Dark, and have performed with the ensemble at the Met Cloisters, the Morgan Library, and the Hispanic Society of America.

"Highlights belonged to… bass Nathan Halbur's nimble accounts of [Bach's] melismas."

(Boston Classical Review)

"…the dramatic highpoint came in the call and answer discourse between [Halbur] with his uproarious pagan compatriots… Who could resist?"

(The Boston Musical Intelligencer)

I primarily compose and arrange vocal music, both songs and choral works (sometimes with other instruments).

Three pieces for choir and string quartet received world premieres at Boston's Museum of Science (Nightingale Vocal Ensemble, Juventas New Music Ensemble). My music was featured in the exhibition an archive and/or a repertoire at SMFA at Tufts, in a collaboration with artist Kledia Spiro and ten poets. My setting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 43 was recently selected as a winner of the WNYC Public Song Project.

I produced Nightingale Vocal Ensemble's entirely improvised album Composition Sped Up, and directed the live show Photoplay at The Brattle Theatre. I curate a monthly series of Exploratory Choral Meditations at Boston's Cathedral Church of St. Paul, probing the intersections of diverse art, sonic experimentation, and social justice.

"Conjured as if by occult ritual… sublime unchartered musical worlds."

 (CRB Classical 99.5)

"…a treasure trove of moods and sounds… a transcendent experience."

 (Here Comes The Flood)

"…a unique statement that delights the ears, even while occasionally boggling the mind."

 (Right Brain Records)