PFCM Welcomes... Nathan!

While PFCM has played Nathan's music in the past (and he wrote one of our World Premieres last year), this is the first year he has been available to actually be at the festival. We're thrilled he can join us! 




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​Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis is a New York-based composer and jazz pianist whose music synthesizes a wide array of influences from popular, minimalist and jazz idioms with a deep grounding in classical forms and traditions. His work is often guided by psychological narratives that unfold through references to past musical traditions, communal improvisation, cult films, iconic works of art, and the ambient sounds of the urban landscape. In this way, his music produces a dense network of post-modern meanings that the listener is invited to unravel through their own interpretation. His music has been described in the Washington Post as “a kind of kaleidoscope…each moment bringing a shift in the harmonic feel and flow, from jazzy licks to piled-up counterpoint to independent chords.” All About Jazz calls him “a musician that has absorbed the stylistic vocabularies of the greats and distilled them into his own personal approach both muscular and lyrical.” This inclusive musical voice has resulted in a wide range of recent works and commissions that encompass evening-length improvised multi-media suites, electro-acoustic pieces and traditional chamber and orchestral music. His work has been performed nationally by such groups as The Chesapeake Orchestra, Inscape Chamber Orchestra, Pikes Falls Chamber Players, The Left Bank Quartet, and saxophonist Noah Getz. Recent awards and accolades include an American Music Center CAP award, the Walsum Prize, an SCI commission regional finalist, an Atlantic Center for the Arts residency under composer musician Henry Threadgill, and the Smadbeck Prize. His music was recently released on the Grammy-nominated Sono Luminis release Sprung Rhythm, and his chamber symphony was released on Inscape’s 2014 record American Aggregate. Originally from Maryland, Nathan holds degrees in composition from Ithaca College (BM) and the University of Maryland (DMA). He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music at Fordham University.​

Nathan will be around for the second week of the festival; PFCM's other composer-in-residence, Joe Hallman, will be there for the first series of concerts. 

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