Music Staff Pianist

A consummate collaborator, pianist Nathaniel LaNasa has been praised for his “stormy lyricism” (New York Times) and his “poise and elegance” (Feast of Music). In 2022, he performed Ricky Ian Gordon’s Intimate Apparel sixty times at Lincoln Center; he returned for LCT’s 2025-26 Amahl and the Night Visitors with Joyce DiDonato. His recital partners have included Leona Mitchell, Will Liverman, and Gregory Feldmann; his premieres include works by Timo Andres, Matthew Ricketts, Molly Joyce, Iain Bell, and Iván Rodriguez. Nate curates NYFOS Next at New York Festival of Song, for which critics have lauded his “thematically coherent, well-paced, and musically varied” programs and his “exquisite” piano playing. NYC credits include Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, MoMA, Brooklyn Art Song Society, and (le) Poisson Rouge; he’s performed at the Musée d’Orsay (Paris), Wigmore Hall (London), and Burning Man (Black Rock City). Nate is a graduate of the Juilliard School and MSM.