Dr. Nathan Huvard

www.natehuvard.com

As a guitarist, lutenist, mandolinist, and fretted multi-instrumentalist, Dr. Nathan Huvard has built a reputation as a flexible and thoughtful collaborator across a wide variety of genres including early music, jazz, classical, new music, theater, and opera.

In addition to regularly performing with the Metropolitan Opera (Ainadamar 2024, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 2025, Don Giovanni 2025), Nate's musical theater career has included holding chairs on Broadway (Camelot 2023) and on tour (CHICAGO, 2022), as well as subbing off-Broadway (TEETH 2024). As a chamber and orchestral musician, he has performed with the Pittsburgh Opera, Mannes Opera, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Bridgeport Symphony, and Waterbury Symphony.​ He holds degrees from Stony Brook University (D.M.A. ’24) and Yale School of Music (M.M. ’19, M.M.A. ’20). In 2022, he was invited to study with maestro Oscar Ghiglia at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, IT. In 2024-25, he completed a year of intensive study in historical performance at The Juilliard School on a full scholarship. ​

 
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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Teaching Interests

Dr. Huvard's teaching philosophy is rooted in the idea that fretted instruments have long been social chameleons: equally at home on the concert stage and around the campfire, as vehicles of sophisticated virtuosity and of vernacular expression. Accordingly, the guitar studio at Fredonia consists of students with a wide range of backgrounds and stylistic interests. Students are exposed to a wide body of repertoire ranging from 16th century music on period instruments to contemporary rock and pop, techniques ranging from flamenco to bossa nova, and much more. 
 

Research Interests

"A Lute on Broadway" - Lute Society of America Quarterly, Fall 2023 (article)

"A New Performing Edition of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's 'Capriccio Diabolico'" (lecture recital)

Capriccio Diabolico - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ed. Huvard (video performance)

Professional Membership

• American Federation of Musicians, Local 802
• Lute Society of America

Intellectual Contributions

• "A Lute on Broadway," Lute Society of America Quarterly (2023).