The Scoring Berlin Orchestra & Nathan Henninger
Biography The Scoring Berlin Orchestra & Nathan Henninger
Nathan Henninger
is a composer and conductor for film, TV and the concert hall. Based in the Azores and New York City, he is originally from Toronto, Canada, having grown up in southern Ontario and Pasadena, California. He composes contemporary classical music in the neo-romantic and impressionist traditions. He trained at Pomona College, Juilliard, and Greenwich House in New York, where he studied piano privately with Taka Kigawa for 10 years. In 2023 he graduated from the Film Scoring Academy of Europe.
A classically trained pianist, Nate also plays French Horn and sang in various choirs and a capella groups in New York, including at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Most recently he participated in the Hollywood Music Workshop, the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive and the Soundsgate Composer Summit 2024. He has had the opportunity to learn from top orchestrators and arrangers, including Conrad Pope, Nan Schwartz and Norman Ludwin.
In 2023 Nate conducted and recorded his music with the Scoring Berlin Orchestra, with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and other session musicians at the iconic Teldex Studio Berlin, and several singles with Soundsgate at the Czech Radio Hall in Prague. His first album "Five Scenes for Orchestra" will release August 8, 2025 on CD, Vinyl and Digital, as well as in Dolby Atmos on Apple Classical.
He is conducting and recording his new concert work "Romanza," a tone poem for string orchestra, percussion and piano in Budapest in June 2025. During autumn 2025 he will record a companion chamber suite for flute, cello and piano, for his second album, "Romanza" (2026).
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