Biography:
Nathan Laube’s extensive recital career includes major venues spanning four continents, with notable appearances at the Vienna Konzerthaus (AT), the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie (DE), the Berlin Philharmonie (DE), the Sejong Center in Seoul (KR), Royal Festival Hall in London (UK), Béla Bartok National Concert Hall in Budapest (HU) Maison Radio France in Paris (FR), Auditorium Maurice Ravel in Lyon (FR), Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow (RU), Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona (ES), Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid (ES), Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (USA), Meyerson Concert Hall in Dallas (USA), Verizon Hall in Philadelphia (USA), Maison Symphonique in Montréal (CA), Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris (FR), and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London (UK), the Frauenkirche in Dresden (DE), and the Cathedral in Berlin (DE). For the summer 2017, he was chosen as the first Organist in Residence at the celebrated 1738 Müller Organ of the St.-Bavokerk in Haarlem (NL). In August 2022, he made his debut for the prestigious BBC Proms in a live-broadcast solo recital at Royal Albert Hall in London (UK).
He is regularly called upon to inaugurate important new organs, including those of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna (AT), King’s College Chapel in Cambridge (UK), Canterbury Cathedral (UK), York Minster (UK), the Gothenburg Concert Hall (SE), the Cathedral in Graz (AT), and St. Moritz in Olomouc (CZ). In the USA, they have included The Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral in Raleigh, St. Paul’s Cathedral in Birmingham, and Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota, among many others. He recently took part in the inaugural concerts on the Rieger organ in the Concert Hall in Helsinki (FI), and the Mühleisen organ in Moscow’s Zaryadye Concert Hall (RU).
Mr. Laube is a regular guest at the major organ festivals of Europe, including Freiberg (DE), Dresden (DE), Hamburg (DE), Leipzig (DE), Toulouse (FR), Haarlem (NL), Groningen (NL), Dordrecht (NL), Stockholm (SE), Göteborg (SE), Lund (SE), Lapua (FI), Lahti (FI), Smarano (IT), St. Albans (UK), Odense (DK), among many others. He has additionally served on the juries for many competitions, including the International Gottfried Silbermann Competition in Freiberg (DE), the International Martini Organ Competition in Groningen (NL), the Olivier Messiaen Competition in Lyon (FR), St. Albans International Organ Festival (UK), and the Albert-Schweitzer Competition in Strasbourg (FR).
In April 2019, Mr. Laube launched the documentary-style radio program, “All the Stops,” on the WFMT Radio Network in Chicago, an eight-hour documentary series, contextualizing great historic organs within their complex musical and extra-musical histories. His recording of the Stephen Paulus Grand Concerto with the Nashville Symphony and Giancarlo Guerrero, received a GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Compendium.
Passionate about organ design and aesthetics, he also serves as a consultant or advisor for new instruments, including the Concert Hall in Göteborg (SE), the Stockholm Cathedral (SE), the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (PA, USA), the Shrine of the Little Flower in Miami-Coral Gables (FL, USA), Holy Trinity Lutheran in Manhattan (NY, USA), the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis (MN, USA), Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester (NY, USA), among others.
Mr. Laube is Associate Professor of Organ at the Eastman School of Rochester (NY, USA) where he taught from 2013 to 2020, returning in 2022. From 2020 to 2022, Mr. Laube served as organ professor at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart (DE). Since 2018, Laube serves as the International Consultant in Organ Studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK). He has recently been invited as a Beaufort Visiting Fellows at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge (UK) for the autumn of 2026.
Mr. Laube is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Alan Morrison (organ) and Susan Starr (piano), the Conservatoire in Toulouse, where he studied with Michel
Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen under the auspices of a William Fulbright Grant, and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, where he studied with Ludger Lohmann with the assistance of a DAAD Grant.
Program:
Trois Chorals pour Grand Orgue
Choral No. 1 in E
César Franck 1822-1890
Variations Sérieuses, Op. 54
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy 1809-1847
Transcription by Nathan Laube
Sonata for Organ in C-minor (“Der 94ste Psalm”)
Julius Reubke 1834-1858
Grave-Larghetto-Grave
O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
Arise, thou judge of the world: and reward the proud after their deserving.
Allegro con fuoco
Lord, how long shall the ungodly triumph?
They murder the widow, and the stranger: and put the fatherless to death.
And yet they say: the Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
Adagio
If the Lord had not helped me: it had not failed but my soul had been put to silence.
Allegro
But the Lord is my defense: and my God is the rock of my refuge.
And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity: and shall cut them off in their own wickedness
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