Nathan Tinker
Nathan Tinker obtained his Bachelors of Music with Honours from the Royal College of Music, in 2011, where he studied piano with Gordon Fergus-Thompson, composition with Jonathan Cole and jazz piano with Michael Moran. Nathan then graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) with Distinction, in 2017, under the tutelage of Pamela Lidiard. Nathan was the Artist Fellow of the GSMD in the academic year of 2017-2018 in contemporary piano, and currently leads seminars for undergraduate pianists in improvisation. Primarily a collaborative pianist, Nathan has performed at the Barbican Centre, St. Martin’s in the Fields, St. James Piccadilly, the Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall. Internationally he has performed in Corsica, Italy, Spain, Romania and his native Japan. In 2017, Nathan was awarded the Concert Recital Diploma at the GSMD and First Prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards in the Wigmore Hall, with mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska. The following year, Nathan and Ema competed in the prestigious Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform. Nathan also regularly performs with exceptional award-winning flautist Mark Taylor, with whom he appeared at the 2020 digital Leicester Music Festival and the 2019 edition of the Cheltenham Music Festival, as recipients of The Countess of Munster Star Award.
Nathan is a keen composer, and recently finished his ‘Kaneko Misuzu Settings’ for voice and piano. The last of the set, Are You An Echo? was premiered digitally in his first video opus to help promote his GoFundMe Campaign. He is completing his flute and piano extravaganza, Topsy Turvy which he hopes to video premiere later this year with Mark Taylor. He composed the background music to the video documentary short based on English National Ballet-Central Saint Martins-University College London collaboration, Patterns of Perception. In 2018 he was commissioned to arrange for GSMD’s Songs at Six: Adventures in the Great American Songbook. In the same year, he was also contracted as a creative consultant for a feature film, Your Eyes on Me produced by Da Arts Film Ltd. He also makes piano arrangements of current pop songs which are published on Sheet Music Plus. Nathan performs regularly with fellow pianist and wife, Alexandra Tinker, and together they form the Passepartout Piano Duo, who have been associated with the Live Music Now scheme offering interactive concerts in care homes, hospitals and schools since 2014. Nathan also performs with jazz ensemble Arrietty and has performed at Spitalfields Hearts in Harmony charity festival, Jazz Live at the Crypt in Saint Giles Church, Camberwell and Hampstead Jazz club. When he is not busy performing, Nathan teaches piano privately and works as a live musician for Trinity Laban as well as St. Thomas's Day schools. He also accompanies dance classes for people living with Parkinson's for BalletBoyz and English National Ballet.
Nathan is a keen composer, and recently finished his ‘Kaneko Misuzu Settings’ for voice and piano. The last of the set, Are You An Echo? was premiered digitally in his first video opus to help promote his GoFundMe Campaign. He is completing his flute and piano extravaganza, Topsy Turvy which he hopes to video premiere later this year with Mark Taylor. He composed the background music to the video documentary short based on English National Ballet-Central Saint Martins-University College London collaboration, Patterns of Perception. In 2018 he was commissioned to arrange for GSMD’s Songs at Six: Adventures in the Great American Songbook. In the same year, he was also contracted as a creative consultant for a feature film, Your Eyes on Me produced by Da Arts Film Ltd. He also makes piano arrangements of current pop songs which are published on Sheet Music Plus. Nathan performs regularly with fellow pianist and wife, Alexandra Tinker, and together they form the Passepartout Piano Duo, who have been associated with the Live Music Now scheme offering interactive concerts in care homes, hospitals and schools since 2014. Nathan also performs with jazz ensemble Arrietty and has performed at Spitalfields Hearts in Harmony charity festival, Jazz Live at the Crypt in Saint Giles Church, Camberwell and Hampstead Jazz club. When he is not busy performing, Nathan teaches piano privately and works as a live musician for Trinity Laban as well as St. Thomas's Day schools. He also accompanies dance classes for people living with Parkinson's for BalletBoyz and English National Ballet.