A professional organist, harpsichordist and fortepianist, Nathan Mondry has carved an international reputation as an improviser and composer and is currently a D.M.A. student in the Keyboard Studies program at Cornell University. After completing a bachelor’s degree in piano performance at the University of Michigan, he earned a master’s degree in harpsichord performance and an Artist Diploma in organ performance at McGill University, followed by a master’s degree in historical improvisation at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. Mondry is the recipient of numerous prizes, including a Special Prize at the First International Competition for Basso Continuo and Partimento Realization in Katowice, Poland (2019), First Prize (with Arnie Tanimoto) at the Bach-Abel Competition (2018), and a prize for composition at the International Competition for Organ Composition in Pordenone, Italy (2019). He was also a finalist in the 2017 Sweelinck Competition in the Netherlands. Furthermore, he has been commissioned to reconstruct and compose original works for various organizations and musicians, including the Association Éphémère classique in France (“Projet Myrelingues”), Les Idées heureuses in Montréal, as well as the Italian organist Alberto Gaspardo and the Swiss consort group PrimaFlautina.
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