November 15, 2023 Mr. Max Hobart 74 Standish Cir, Wellesley, MA 02481 Dear Mr. Hobart, Thank you for the opportunity of conducting a concert of the Metro-West Symphony on November 12, 2023 and for your willingness to provide me with a summary of your observations of my performance on that occasion. As you requested, I append to this letter a draft of comments which you might choose to endorse. I consider attempts to promote myself, however unavoidable they might be in charting a career as a musical conductor, to be precarious enterprises, and I not only ask you to make such critical corrections of my draft as you consider apposite, but also to feel free to add to it such derogatory comments as you deem appropriate. Please accept my thanks for the opportunity to conduct and my very best wishes for your recovery and future good health. Sincerely, Nathaniel Meyer ======================= Concerning Nathaniel Meyer: I make this recommendation as the conductor of the Metro-West Symphony Orchestra https://metrowestsymphony.org/ who on short notice asked Nathaniel to conduct its concert in Hopkinton MA on November 12, 2023 in a program consisting of the Overture to the Barber of Seville by Rossini, Pavane by Ravel, Carmen Suite by Georges Bizet, and the Piano Concerto in A minor by Edvard Grieg with pianist Constantine Finehouse. I was present at the concert and observed and heard Nathaniel's conducting. I thought the audience was enthusiastic. There was an encore. The orchestra was well rehearsed and its sound was balanced. Nathaniel followed my directions about conducting and my suggestions about interpretions of the scores. He had been helpful to me in finding an accomplished player for principal trumpet. He had found for me a suitable excellent arrangement of "My Country 'tis of thee" for which I had asked in celebration of "Veterans' Day". He kindly helped a player of second clarinet struggling with her part. The pianist told me he enjoyed working with Nathaniel and said that his conducting was easy to follow. Nathaniel's beat was clear and replete with energy and emotion. Thank you for your willingness to provide me with a summary on the On short notice Nathaniel conducted Metro-West Symphony Orchestra Overtrure Barber of Seville Rossini Ravel Pavane Carmen Suite Bizet Grieg Piano Concerto in minor concert November 12, 2023 Constantine Finehouse audience was enthusiastic and there was an encore orchestra well rehearse sound was balanced Nathaniel followed my expressions how to interpret followed my directions about conduction problems in the orchestra second clarinet player struggling with her part helped Max had asked me to find a principal trumpet He also asked me to find an arrangement for my country tis of the in celebration of veterans day he found a suitable excellent arrangement of that piece. The pianist enjoyed working with him and said that his conducting was easy to follow. Nathaniel conducted a clear beat energy and emotion NATHANIEL MEYER CONDUCTOR ​ HOME ABOUT MEDIA CONTACT American conductor, Nathaniel Meyer has conducted in France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania, South America, and throughout the United States. ​ Meyer was the 1st prize winner of the LaGuardia Conducting Competition. He has conducted at the Lake Como International Conducting Competition, and has also been invited to the Opera de Baugé Conducting Competition in France, the Bucharest Music Institute International Competition, the Italian Conducting Competition, and the Fricsay Internaitional Conducting Competition in Hungary. In 2022-2023, he has conducted the Bucharest Symphony, the Paris Mozart Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonia. ​ Meyer is the Music Director laureate of the Du Bois Orchestra, dedicated to performing works by historically marginalized composers alongside the well-known repertoire of the classical tradition. With the Du Bois Orchestra, Meyer was one of the first American conductors to champion the works of forgotten African American composers such as Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, rediscovering long-lost scores and giving the Boston and world premieres of pieces such as the oratorio, Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Florence Price. Meyer studied at Yale University and the Jacobs School of Music, where he received his Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting. He has also studied at the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and the Järvi Academy for Conductors in Estonia, and in international masterclasses with Jorma Panula, Ennio Nicotra, Claire Gibault and Martin Sieghart. He has been an assistant conductor for Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the Philharmonia Orchestra in London for acclaimed performances and a historically informed recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. ​ ​ Nathaniel Meyer he is also an accomplished trumpet player, and the winner of the National Trumpet Competition and International Trumpet Guild Competition. The Boston Globe described him as "outstanding in the prominent trumpet part, playing with spirit, accuracy, feeling, and beautiful tone". As a conductor, Meyer has been described as "Talented and Charismatic...a new, dynamic Leonard Bernstein" (Belmont Citizen-Herald) and possessing "the musical imagination and the physical gifts of a born conductor...he led the final section of Tchaikovsky's Overture-Fantasy with power, passion and pertinence, building an overwhelming climax at the crest of the love theme. The audience and the orchestra burst into applause and cheers." (Boston Globe music critic, Richard Dyer). "Where words end, music begins" -Heinrich Heine © 2023 https://www.nathanielmeyerconductor.com/