Nathan Koci

Nathan Koci is a versatile music director, conductor, and performer whose work spans theater, folk music, jazz, contemporary classical music, and dance. His music direction credits include the Tony Award-winning production of Illinoise by Justin Peck and Sufjan Stevens (Music Supervisor for the original Broadway company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Bard Summerscape); Hadestown (US tour, Associate Music Director on Broadway and at Citadel Theatre); and the Tony and Olivier Award-winning production of Oklahoma! by Daniel Fish (Bard Summerscape, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Broadway, West End). Other notable credits include Most Happy in Concert (Bard Summerscape, Williamstown Theatre Festival); Maria Irene Fornés’ Promenade (Barnard/NYU); and Ted Hearne’s The Source (LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, BAM Next Wave). As a performer, Koci has appeared in William Kentridge’s The Great Yes, The Great No and The Head & the Load (Park Avenue Armory, Ruhrtriennale, Tate Modern, Art Basel Miami, Joburg Theatre), as well as in The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman and John Heginbotham (BAM Next Wave) and Alicia Hall Moran’s Cold Blooded (National Sawdust). He is the featured accordionist on Sam Sadigursky’s Solomon Diaries Vol. I-III and also performs and records with The Hands Free, Shovels and Rope, the Michael Leonhart Orchestra, Guy Klucevsek, and the South Carolina-based trio The Opposite of a Train. nathankoci.com.