Nathan Cole, Violin

Biography

Nathan Cole is a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's first violin section. Prior to his appointment
to the orchestra in 2002, he served for two seasons as principal second violin of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. A native of
Lexington, Kentucky, Mr. Cole’s solo debut came at the age of ten with the Louisville Orchestra. He received a Bachelor of Music from
the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Pamela Frank, Felix Galimir, Ida Kavafian and Jaime Laredo.

Mr. Cole’s love for chamber music flourished at Curtis, and in 1998 he became the founding first violinist of the Grancino String
Quartet—which won the 2000 Barnett Foundation Chamber Music Competition in Chicago— and participated in the 2000 Isaac Stern
Chamber Music Encounters in Jerusalem. The Quartet made its New York debut in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 2002. Mr. Cole’s
chamber music activities also include three summers at the Marlboro Music Festival, along with national tours as part of Music From
Marlboro. He has participated in the Sarasota, Skaneateles, Taos, and Verbier festivals, as well as Music From Angelfire, where the
Grancino was the Young Artist Quartet-in-Residence for 2000. During the last two summers, he has taught and performed at the Colorado
College Summer Music Institute and the Mimir Festival in Fort Worth.

In recent seasons Mr. Cole has appeared with the Lexington Philharmonic and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and has given recitals in
Chicago, Lexington, Philadelphia and Saint Paul. In 2003-2004, he appeared in recital in Naples, Florida and Chicago, as soloist with
the Haddonfield and Bremerton Symphonies, and as guest concertmaster with the Oregon Symphony.