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Canadian-born violinist Nathanael Bartley (Nato) is an emerging solo concert artist. He has concertized for American Presidents and received standing ovations from audiences throughout the world. At the age of three, Nato began his musical journey and at five, made his solo orchestral debut. The same year, competing against over three-thousand other musicians of all ages, Nato took first prize at Canada's prestigious Canadian Music Competition. At nine, he was awarded the Charles Ives fellowship -- a $100,000 prize -- coupled with the loan of a Nicolo Amati violin. Studying with such teachers as Dorothy DeLay, Nato went on to win top prizes at the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition, the Minneapolis Young Artist Competition, the Montreal Symphony Competition, the Beethoven Competition and J.S. Bach Competition. From the age of 13, he has trained at some of most esteemed American institutions such as the Juilliard School. Nato has been featured on CBS' Sunday Morning with Eugenia Zuckerman and the CBC in Canada. He has an unquenchable thirst for new music and authors the blog fiddlefish which reports on his findings within the renaissance of fine violin making. He performs exclusively with a J.B. Spidlen violin made for him and a bow by William C. Retford. He is a veteran boulderer and amateur mycologist. He resides in New York City.
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John Adams - Concerto for Violin
J.S. Bach - Concerto for Two Violins in d minor
J.S. Bach - Concerto for Violin in E major
J.S. Bach - Concerto for Violin in a minor
Samuel Barber - Concerto for Violin, Op. 14
Ludvig van Beethoven - Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61
Johannes Brahms - Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77
Max Bruch - Concerto for Violin No. 1 in A major
Philip Glass - Concerto for Violin No. 1
Joseph Haydn - Concerto for Violin No. 1 in C major
Dmitri Kabalevsky - Concerto for Violin
Edouard Lalo - Symphony Espangnol in d minor
Felix Mendelssohn - Concerto for Violin in e minor, Op. 64
Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Violin No. 2 in A major
Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Violin No. 2 in D major
Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Violin No. 3 in G major
Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Violin No. 4 in D major
Nicolo Paganini - Concerto for Violin No. 1 in D major, Op. 6
Sergei Prokofiev - Concerto for Violin No. 1 in D major, Op. 19
Sergei Prokofiev - Concerto for Violin No. 2 in g minor, Op. 63
Camile Saint-Saens - Concerto for Violin No. 3
Dmitri Shostakovich - Concerto for Violin No. 1 in a minor, Op. 99
Dmitri Shostakovich - Concerto for Violin No. 2 in c♯ minor, Op. 129
Jean Sibelius - Concerto for Violin
Peter Tchaikovsky - Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35
Henri Vieuxtemps - Concerto for Violin No. 4
Henri Vieuxtemps - Concerto for Violin No. 5
Henryk Wieniaski - Concerto for Violin No. 1 in f♯ minor, Op. 14
Henryk Wieniaski - Concerto for Violin No. 2 in d minor, Op. 22
Bela Bartok - Romanian Dances
Antonio Bazzini - La Rhonde des Lutins, Op. 25
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in f minor, Op. 50
Dejan Despic - Vignettes, Op. 43
Christoph Willibald Von Gluck - Melodie Arranged by Kreisler in d minor
Fritz Kreisler - Liebesfreud
Fritz Kreisler - Liebesleid
Fritz Kreisler - Schon Rosmarin
Witold Lutoslawski - Subito for Violin and Piano (1994)
Jules Massenet - Meditation from Thais
Ottokar Novacek - Moto Perpetuo
Arvo Part - Fratres for Violin and Piano (1977)
Maurice Ravel - Tzigane
Camile Saint-Saens - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in b minor, Op. 28
Pablo de Sarasate - Introduction and Tarantella, Op. 43
Pablo de Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20
Robert Schumann - Fantasie in C major, Op. 131
Karol Szymanovski - Nocturne and Tarantella in b minor, Op. 28
Peter Tchaikovsky - Souvenir d'un lieu cher in d minor, Op. 42
Tommaso Antonio Vitali - Chaconna in g minor
Pancho Vladigerov - Rhapsody Vardar for Violin and Orchestra in E major, Op. 16
Pancho Vladigerov - Two Miniatures for Violin and Piano, Op. 29
Franz Waxman - Carman Fantasy
Henryk Wieniaski - Legend in g minor, Op. 17
Henryk Wieniaski - Polonaise de Concert in D major, Op. 4
Henryk Wieniaski - Scherzo and Tarantelle in g minor, Op. 16
J.S. Bach - Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in e minor, BWV 1023
J.S. Bach - Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in f minor, BWV 1018
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 (Kreutzer) in A major, Op. 47
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in E♭ major, Op. 12
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F major, Op. 24
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8 in G major, Op. 30
Johannes Brahms - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in G major, Op. 78
Johannes Brahms - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
Johannes Brahms - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in d minor, Op. 108
Arcangelo Corelli - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 12 (La Folia) in d minor, Op. 5
Claude Debussy - Sonata for Violin and Piano in g minor
Cesar Franck - Sonata for Piano and Violin in A major
Jean-Marie Leclair - Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major
Amadeus Mozart - Sonata for Violin and Piano in e minor
Sergei Prokofiev - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in f minor, Op. 80
Maurice Ravel - Sonata Posthume in a minor
Bedrich Smetana - From My Homeland
Grazyna Bacewicz - Sonata for Solo Violin No. 2
J.S. Bach - Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Bela Bartok - Sonata for Solo Violin
Francois-Xavier Delacoste - Lhungse
Max Ernst - The Last Rose of Summer
Adriano Guarnieri - ...Fili Bianco Velati... Per Violino Solo (2006)
Zoltan Kodaly - Duo for Violin and Cello in d minor, Op. 7
Nicolo Paganini - 24 Caprece for Solo Violin, Op. 1
Sergei Prokofiev - Sonata for Two Violins in C major, Op. 56
Amplified Puddle - Minimalist Medley
Maurice Ravel - Sonata for Violin and Cello
Alfred Schnittke - A Paganini for Solo Violin (1982) in d minor
Alfred Schnittke - Fuga for Solo Violin (1953) in d minor, Op. 11
Francisco Tarrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra in C major
Eugene Ysaye - Posthume Solo Sonata for Two Violins in a minor
Eugene Ysaye - Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27

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