At present, Nathan Fischer is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at the American University in Cairo, Egypt (AUC). 

Living in Egypt, Nathan’s primary area of research is the study, performance, and recording of music with special consideration of works by Egyptian and Arabic composers. 

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. As a performer and teacher Nathan has appeared at international festivals such as the Eastman GuitarFest (Rochester, New York), the Alexandria Guitar Festival (Alexandria, Virginia), the Las Vegas Guitar Festival (Las Vegas, Nevada), the Guitar Gems Festival (Netanya, Israel), the National Federation of Music Clubs (Denver, Colorado), and the Tabula Rasa International Guitar Festival and Competition (Volgograd, Russia). His recording Images, was released in the year 2000.

As a teacher, Nathan has held faculty positions with the State University of New York in Fredonia, the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, and as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar he taught at the Academy of Arts in Cairo, Egypt. To help broaden education opportunities available to guitarists, Nathan launched the International Guitar Institute (IGI) in 2006 and is currently President of the organization.

Nathan is an advocate for new music and the advancement of the guitar in the world of music.  To facilitate this, he has volunteered as a board member with the Guitar Society of Las Vegas, the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, the IGI, and the Cairo Guitar Society. As an advocate for new music, Nathan has received grants for works by the Howard Hanson Institute for New Music at the Eastman School of Music, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, and a U.S. Fulbright Grant.  Through these granting organizations, new works for the guitar have been written (or are in progress) by Kye Ryung Park, Aaron Travers, 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 teaching and performing 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 degree from George Mason University and as an undergraduate he attended master classes with Oscar Ghiglia at the Academia di Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy as well as Les Arcs, France.