Nathan Carterette | Award-Winning Concert Pianist & Educator

Hailed as “wonderfully poetic,” (Westfalen Post), “exuberant yet sensitive,” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and “very compelling in his power and presence” (International Composer), Nathan Carterette has distinguished himself in the concert world by performing a huge range of works from Elizabethan keyboard music to music written today. His innovative, approachable ‘Poets of the Piano’ has inspired audiences to approach unfamiliar music with open ears, and familiar music with new appreciation.

Appearing as soloist, Nathan has been presented in such venues as Weill Recital Hall and the Yamaha Piano Salon of New York City, the Gasteig in Munich, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe of Hamburg, Cleveland’s Trinity Cathedral, Iowa City’s Englert Theatre and Pittsburgh’s Rodef Shalom; in several universities such as Lawrence University, Drake University, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, Busan National University of South Korea, and Carnegie-Mellon.

Educated at Yale University, where he studied with Boris Berman, and University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he studied with Robert Weirich, Nathan began his piano studies at the age of eleven with Cleveland’s legendary Birute and Anthony Smetona. A chance encounter in 2004 with Welsh composer-pianist Dafydd Llywelyn led to an invitation for intensive private study in Munich, where Nathan studied and performed the traditional repertoire as well as Llywelyn’s music for three years. Nathan recently received his Doctorate degree from the University of Iowa, with a dissertation being an engraving of the ten solo piano works of Korean composer-pianist Quentin Kim.

Nathan, together with organist Edward Alan Moore, form The Arsenal Duo. They have performed dozens of concerts throughout the country, starting with their debut in 2013 in Youngstown, OH’s historic Stambaugh Auditorium. They will be featured on the American Guild of Organist series in UNLV’s Doc Rando Hall in May 2026.

Nathan teaches Piano, Organ, and Music Theory at Nevada School of the Arts in Las Vegas.