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Dr. Nathan Fischer has built his career as a performer, teacher, and entrepreneur for the arts.  Currently, Nathan is a member of the teaching faculty at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, and as a US Fulbright Scholar in 2009, will teach Musical Rhythm at the Academy of Arts in Cairo, Egypt. As an active arts leader, Nathan is currently President of the International Guitar Institute and sits on the Board of Directors with the Guitar Society of Las Vegas. 

As a concert artist, Nathan’s performances have been described as having “a wide range of color and covering passages of sensitive emotion to fiery passion”—The Washington Guitar Society.  His concert appearances have included venues throughout the United States as well as Yugoslavia, Italy, Spain, and the Middle East. A s a performer and teacher Nathan has appeared at international festivals such as the Eastman GuitarFest in Rochester, New York; the Alexandria Guitar Festival in Alexandria, Virginia; the Las Vegas Guitar Festiva, in Las Vegas, Nevada; the Guitar Gems Festival, in Netanya, Israel; and the National Federation of Music Clubs, in Denver, Colorado. His recording, Images, was released in the year 2000 and he is currently working to release a subsequent CD to include the solo works of Augustíne Barrios Mangoré.

As an advocate for new music, Nathan has received grants for new works by the Reva and David Logan Foundation, The Howard Hanson Institute for New Music at the Eastman School of Music, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, and the US Fulbright Grant.  Through these granting organizations, new works for the guitar have been written by Aaron Traver, Kevin Ernste, Sherif Mohie El Din, John Baboukis, Ahmed Madkour, and Ashraf Fouad.

Nathan holds a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music in Performance and Literature of Guitar, where he developed his inviting and captivating performance and teaching personality. For his achievements through 2004, the Eastman School of Music presented him with the Andrés Segovia Award for Musical Accomplishment and Human Endeavor.  Nathan received his Bachelor of Music from George Mason Universtiy and during his undergraduate attended master classes with Oscar Ghiglia at the Academia di Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy in Les Arcs, France.