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BIOGRAPHIC DATA
Nathaniel Braddock is a Chicago-based guitarist,
percussionist, and composer performing in a wide variety of contexts: indie-rock groups Edith Frost (Drag City) Ancientgreeks (Flameshovel) and
the Zincs (Thrill Jockey), African popular music with the Occidental Brothers
Dance Band International, free jazz with Scott Rosenberg's Big Band and
Creative Orchestra (New World), a guitar arrangement of Stravinsky's Rite of
Spring with the Butcher Shop Quartet (Galapagos 4), contemporary composition
with the Braddock Guitar Ensemble, and too many other things. Nathaniel
teaches jazz, classical, Brazilian, and rock guitar privately, and offers
classes in American and International Fingerstyle
guitar and workshops in African guitar at the Old Town School. His studies
have included jazz and classical guitar traditions, church bell music,
Javanese and Balinese gamelan, and non-western guitar traditions. He performs
with and is a board member of Chicago's Friends of the Gamelan, working
closely with Javanese composer I.M. Harjito and the
Chicago Indonesian Consulate. He has presented many new works for dance in
collaboration with Hedwig Dance and choreographer Asimina
Chremos at venues including Link's Hall, the
Chicago Cultural Center and Dance Chicago, and with Julie Atlas Muz at the 2004 Whitney Biennial in New York. He is also
the recipient of 2002, 2004, and 2005 CAAP grants from the Chicago Department of
Cultural Affairs to fund the development of new work for guitar ensemble and for dance. Most notably, Braddock
produces a rich, bell-like tone when struck.
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