Nathan Prillaman is a composer and producer of film, classical and electronic music from Potomac, Maryland. Nathan’s music runs the gamut, including experimental, immersive electroacoustic music for interactive theater, historically accurate compositions on period instruments for film, neo-classical music for ballet, cosmically-inflected futuristic folk songs for his band Small Fools, as well as everything in between. As a composer as well as as a technologist and educator, Nathan focuses on the spaces where music, technology, history, and extramusical artistic disciplines collide.
A born collaborator, much of Nathan’s work as both a composer and technologist centers around music in conversation with other art forms. Nathan has been particularly active writing music for dance, which has brought him to stages both domestic and international with a range of collaborators across many different genres. Recently he had the pleasure of returning to Juilliard with long-time collaborator, choreographer Norbert De La Cruz III for an electro-acoustic score to Norbert’s work Fluency for Juilliard Dance’s annual New Dances program.
Nathan’s work as a technologist varies widely, including digital instrument design, tools for multimedia interactivity focused on musical feature extraction, interactive tools for gestural and physical interaction with music, as well as record production, recording engineering and recording studio design. Nathan currently serves on the music technology faculty at the Juilliard School’s Center for Innovation in the Arts, where he teaches classes on audio, video, and multimedia technology.
Nathan’s solo music is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming platforms. Small Fools can be heard on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and other streaming platforms.
