About
Nate Raskin from Boston, Massachusetts, will join the Met music staff for Das Rheingoldand Siegfried in the 2018-19 season. This summer he prepares Idomeneo and Rigoletto at Wolf Trap Opera and returns to the Chautauqua Institution Voice Program for his third summer on the coaching faculty.
Also a passionate interpreter of song repertoire, this past season Mr. Raskin performed in recital for audiences at the Park Avenue Armory and the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, in addition to at the star-studded Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the invitation of Vogue Editor-in-Chief, Anna Wintour. As a coach and educator, he has previously spent time on the music staff of North Park University and the faculty of the Merit School of Music, the latter where he taught courses in art song and diction to young singers.
Mr. Raskin was trained at Northwestern University, where he earned degrees in music as well as German, and at the Juilliard School, where he obtained a master’s degree in collaborative piano. He continued German studies at the Middlebury College Language Schools and piano studies as a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival.