{{short description|American composer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox musical artist | genre = Classical | occupation = composer | instrument = piano | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1985}} | years_active = <!-- YYYY–YYYY (or –present) --> | associated_acts = | label = SNOtone | notable_instruments = }} '''Natalie Draper''' is an American composer who teaches composition at Syracuse University's Setnor School of Music.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vpa.syr.edu/faculty-staff/natalie-draper|title=Natalie Draper|website=www.vpa.syr.edu|access-date=2018-09-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.levinemusic.org/education/areas-of-study/composition/574-natalie-draper|title=Natalie Draper - Levine Music|last=Fraser|first=Angie|website=www.levinemusic.org|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref>
==Biography== Draper completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in 2017. Her teachers include Oscar Bettison and Joel Hoffman. In 2015, Draper was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/bmi_celebrates_tanglewoods_composition_fellows|title=BMI Celebrates Tanglewood's Composition Fellows|date=2015-08-06|work=BMI.com|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://peabodyinstitute.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/natalie-draper-to-be-composer-fellow-this-summer-at-tanglewood-music-center/|title=Natalie Draper to be composer fellow this summer at Tanglewood Music Center|date=2015-01-08|work=The Peabody Post|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref>
Draper has been featured by GAMMA-UT, MusicX, SEAMUS, the Fromm Scholarship ensemble, Lunar Ensemble, and SONAR New Music Ensemble. Her works has been recognized by the ''Baltimore Sun'', ''Portland Press Herald'', and ''Fanfare, among others.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rchrd.com/mfom/wp/2016/12/16/486-16-december-2016-acromusical-and-symphony-number-one/|title=486 :: 16 December 2016 :: Acromusical and Symphony Number One|website=rchrd.com|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/artsmash/bs-ae-baltimore-centric-recordings-20170211-story.html|title=A sampling of recent Baltimore-centric classical, jazz recordings|last=Smith|first=Tim|work=baltimoresun.com|access-date=2018-01-02|archive-date=2018-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621043101/http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/artsmash/bs-ae-baltimore-centric-recordings-20170211-story.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.baltimoremagazine.com/2017/2/8/music-reviews-latest-plrls-symphony-number-one|title=Music Reviews: February 2017|last=Woolever|first=Lydia|date=2017-02-08|work=Baltimore magazine|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> Draper's work, ''Timelapse Variations'', was commissioned by Symphony Number One and premiered in November 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fanfarearchive.com/articles/atop/40_5/4051470.az_DRAPER_Timelapse_Variations_RUSSELL.html|title=Album Review: More|last=Clarke|first=Colin|website=www.fanfarearchive.com|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> Works such as ''Decadent Music Box'' have garnered various awards and positive mentions.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://peabodyinstitute.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/peabody-composition-competition-winners/|title=Peabody Composition Competition Winners|date=2014-06-06|work=The Peabody Post|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> In 2018, Draper collaborated with NASA to help provide music from ''Timelapse Variations'' for a major research presentation on the impact crater of the Hiawatha Glacier.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12941|title=GMS: Massive Crater Discovered under Greenland Ice|website=svs.gsfc.nasa.gov|date=14 November 2018 |language=en|access-date=2018-11-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/massive-impact-crater-found-under-greenlands-ice-180970829/|title=Massive Impact Crater Found Under Greenland's Ice|last=Daley|first=Jason|work=Smithsonian|access-date=2018-11-17|language=en}}</ref>
Draper has also published an article on Stephen Sondheim.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Who's who in research. Performing arts.|others=Intellect (Firm)|year=2012 |isbn=9781841504940|location=Bristol, UK|oclc=851429265}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Draper|first=Natalie|date=2010-12-01|title=Concept meets narrative in Sondheim's Company: Metadrama as a method of analysis|journal=Studies in Musical Theatre|volume=4|issue=2|pages=171–183|doi=10.1386/smt.4.2.171_1}}</ref>
== Partial list of works == {{external media | float = right | video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTr3VdGlFr8 ''Timelapse Variations'' on NASA mini-documentary], YouTube video }}
* ''Decadent Music Box''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://issuu.com/peabodyinstitute/docs/magazine_rgb_150dpi/34|title=Peabody Magazine Spring 2015|work=issuu|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metafields.org/music_entry/decadent-music-box/|title=Decadent Music Box|website=Metafields}}</ref> * ''Deflected Harmlessly into the Ceiling''<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/01/review-gamper-festival-of-contemporary-music-at-bowdoin-college/|title=Review: Gamper Festival at Bowdoin has it all|last=Hyde|first=Christopher|date=2014-08-01|work=Portland Press Herald|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> * ''O Sea-Starved, Hungry Sea''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.daniellebuonaiuto.com/o-sea-starved-hungry-sea.html|title=O Sea-Starved, Hungry Sea|website=danielle buonaiuto, soprano|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> * ''The Ravens of Unresting Thought''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cdm15982.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/audio/id/3972|title=Draper, Natalie: The Ravens of Unresting Thought|website=cdm15982.contentdm.oclc.org|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> * ''Strains in the Signal''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nataliedraper.net/news--events/lunar-ensemble-to-perform-strains-in-the-signal|title=LUNAR Ensemble to Perform Strains in the Signal|website=Natalie Draper: Composer|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archives.bso.org/Search.aspx?searchType=Performance&Orchestra=Fromm+Fellowship+Players|title=Performance History Search|website=archives.bso.org|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> * ''Timelapse Variations''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://symphonynumber.one/rep/draper-variations/|title=Rep Hub: Natalie Draper, Timelapse Variations|website=Symphony Number One|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://van-us.atavist.com/timelapse|title=Timelapse|last=Madonna|first=Zoe|date=2016-08-18|work=VAN Magazine|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> * ''Water in the Glass''<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Draper|first=Natalie R.|title=Water in the Glass|date=2009|publisher=University of Cincinnati|url=http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1239301472}}</ref>
==Discography== * 2016: '''''More''''': ''Timelapse Variations.'' Also includes Jonathan Russell: ''Light Cathedral''; Andrew Posner: ''The Promised Burning''. (SNOtone ST03)<ref>{{cite web |last=Stapleton |first=Maggie |title=SNEAK PEEK AUDIO LEAK: Symphony Number One |work=Second Inversion |date=December 13, 2016 |url=http://secondinversion.org/2016/12/13/sneak-peek-audio-leak-symphony-number-one/ |accessdate=December 13, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fanfarearchive.com/articles/atop/40_5/4051480.az_DRAPER_Timelapse_Variations_RUSSELL.html|title=Album Review: More|last=Medwin|first=Marc|website=www.fanfarearchive.com|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2016/12/16/andrew-posner-sno-more/|title=Recent Peabody graduate tackles man-made environmental destruction in mournful composition|last=McCabe|first=Bret|date=2016-12-16|work=The Hub|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> * 2012: '''''Mix Tape / Compilation #1''''': ''One Bird Flew South''. (Collaboration with Danny Clay.) Include additional works by various artists. (Don't Be A Stranger DBS-001)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Various-Mix-Tape--Compilation-1/release/4125563|title=Various - Mix Tape - Compilation No. 1|website=Discogs|date=June 2012 |access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{official|http://www.nataliedraper.net/}} *{{Discogs artist|3064183|Natalie Draper}} *{{itunes|us/artist/natalie-draper/1183655189|Natalie Draper}}
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