Nathan Botts - Trumpet
"I guess I just get bored if I have to do any one thing for very>
long," he says. With an insatiable curiosity for new music, Nathan
Botts has grown from his musical beginnings as a jazz trumpeter into
a
performer of nearly every style of music. An active freelance
trumpeter in New York City, Botts regularly performs with a variety of
classical, contemporary, and experimental music ensembles, including
the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Wet Ink Ensemble, and Second
Instrumental Unit. Botts has been a featured soloist with the China
National Symphony, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, and the Utah
Premiere Brass, with whom he premiered a new concerto for
multi-disciplinary trumpet. As a recording artist, Botts has been
featured on jazz, orchestral, soul, house, and bluegrass albums, in
addition to film scores, and numerous jingles for network television
and radio. He is a former member of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra
and the National Repertory Orchestra, he has toured internationally as
principal trumpet with the China National Symphony, and is a current
member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra. Botts has studied
contemporary music under the direction of Pierre Boulez at the Lucerne
Festival Academy, and with David Robertson at the Weill Music
Institute at Carnegie Hall. He has also studied Jazz at the Manhattan
School of Music. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University and the
Juilliard School.
