American conductor, Nathaniel Meyer has conducted in France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania, South America, and throughout the United States.

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Meyer was the 1st prize winner of the LaGuardia Conducting Competition. He has conducted at the Lake Como International Conducting Competition, and has also been invited to the Opera de Baugé Conducting Competition in France, the Bucharest Music Institute International Competition, the Italian Conducting Competition, and the Fricsay Internaitional Conducting Competition in Hungary. In 2022-2023, he has conducted the Bucharest Symphony, the Paris Mozart Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonia.

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Meyer is the Music Director laureate of the Du Bois Orchestra, dedicated to performing works by historically marginalized composers alongside the well-known repertoire of the classical tradition. With the Du Bois Orchestra, Meyer was one of the first American conductors to champion the works of forgotten African American composers such as Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, rediscovering long-lost scores and giving the Boston and world premieres of pieces such as the oratorio, Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Florence Price. 

 

Meyer studied at Yale University and the Jacobs School of Music, where he received his Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting. He has also studied at the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and the Järvi Academy for Conductors in Estonia, and in international masterclasses with Jorma Panula, Ennio Nicotra, Claire Gibault and Martin Sieghart. He has been an assistant conductor for Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the Philharmonia Orchestra in London for acclaimed performances and a historically informed recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

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Nathaniel Meyer he is also an accomplished trumpet player, and the winner of the National Trumpet Competition and International Trumpet Guild Competition. The Boston Globe described him as "outstanding in the prominent trumpet part, playing with spirit, accuracy, feeling, and beautiful tone". As a conductor, Meyer has been described as "Talented and Charismatic...a new, dynamic Leonard Bernstein" (Belmont Citizen-Herald) and possessing "the musical imagination and the physical gifts of a born conductor...he led the final section of Tchaikovsky's Overture-Fantasy with power, passion and pertinence, building an overwhelming climax at the crest of the love theme. The audience and the orchestra burst into applause and cheers." (Boston Globe music critic, Richard Dyer).