Singer, conductor, and educator Nate Widelitz has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Singapore’s Esplanade, and Barcelona’s Palau de la Música under the batons of Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, Franz Welser-Möst, Nicholas McGegan, Masaaki Suzuki, and Helmuth Rilling. He has collaborated with the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra, and Grammy Award-winning artists Kelley O’Connor, Max van Egmond, and Ingrid Michaelson.
Between 2017 and 2021, Nate was appointed Assistant Conductor of Pacific Chorale and director of choirs at Mt. San Antonio College and Los Angeles Valley College. He also made several notable debuts: as a soloist at Disney Hall (as a member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale), as the conductor of an all-professional ensemble (as guest director of the Horizon Chamber Choir), and on the Deutsche Grammophon label (on the LA Phil’s recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, which won a Grammy Award).
Holding degrees in Vocal Arts from USC and Choral Conducting from Yale University, Nate spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he conducted research on the women’s dvuglas music of the Shopski Kray region. He has since taught music at every level from fourth grade through college and sung professionally as a soloist in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. After completing his DMA coursework in Choral Conducting at Yale, where he served as Assistant Conductor of the Glee Club, Nate was appointed full-time Visiting Instructor of Choral Music Education at Millikin University. In 2023, Nate founded the Five Cities Baroque Foundation & Festival, the inaugural offering of which took place in May.