Nathan Laube

   Nathan Laube is a rising star among young organists. At age 15, he was accepted as a full scholarship student at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Now 18, he is a third-year student at the Curtis, where he studies organ with Alan Morrison and piano with Susan Starr. In March 2003, he placed second in the Chicago American Guild of Organists/Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists, and earlier this year returned to win that competition’s first prize. Nathan was named the first Organ Scholar at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church in August 2006. His primary duties there include service playing and accompanying the esteemed 120-voice Senior Choir, under the direction of Jeffery Brillhart. Additionally, from 2005-2006, Nathan served as the accompanist for the acclaimed Philadelphia Choral Arts Society, a 100-voice symphonic chorus. Nathan has also served as one of the assistant organists at the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, the largest functioning musical instrument in the world located in Philadelphia’s former Wanamaker Department Store. In November of 2005 he appeared as the guest artist on WRTI Radio’s broadcast of “The Wanamaker Organ Hour,” for which he played many of his own transcriptions of orchestral works.