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Chicago area native Nathan Laube is an internationally renowned concert organist and educator. In addition to serving on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY) as Associate Professor of Organ, and as International Consultant in Organ Studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Birmingham, UK), Nathan’s extensive recital career includes major venues spanning four continents. These include the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonie, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Royal Festival Hall in London, Maison Radio France in Paris, and the Sejong Center in Seoul. In the United States, he has appeared in the celebrated concert halls of Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, Nashville, Kansas City, among others. He is regularly invited to international American and European organ festivals as a performer, lecturer, and pedagogue. In 2016, he was chosen to play the first inaugural recital of the restored Harrison & Harrison organ of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge (UK), and had the honor of serving as the first Artist-in-Residence of the legendary 1738 Müller organ in St. Bavo in Haarlem (NL). In 2017, he performed at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Nathan has two albums available: the Stephen Paulus Grand Concerto on the Naxos label, recorded with Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony, which received a Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium; and a solo recital recording on the Ambiente label, recorded at the Stadtkirche in Nagold, Germany.