NATHAN FARRINGTON

Bass, Guitar, Voice, Composer, President of Hazard Productions

A versatile bassist, singer, and composer based in Los Angeles, Nathan Farrington moves fluidly between the world’s great orchestras and groundbreaking collaborative projects. He has composed, arranged, and performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New World Symphony, and Louisville Orchestra, while collaborating with artists as varied as Jack Harlow, Charlie Puth, and Rivers Cuomo—always seeking opportunities to expand the boundaries of classical music. Nathan regularly performs with America’s leading orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic, and serves as Principal Bass of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra under James Conlon.

Nathan’s creative work bridges multiple art forms. He co-composed the score for Building a Bridge, a documentary produced by Martin Scorsese, working alongside Teddy Abrams. He created a new film score for Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, performed live to picture by orchestras nationwide. His 2022 production A Soldier’s Tale reimagined Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat as a contemporary story about artistic ambition and balance, premiering at USC’s Visions and Voices series. Since 2024, he’s been a member of In Triplicate, an innovative trio alongside Clancy Newman and Jasmine Lin, and developed the transformative Bandwidth residency at Curtis Institute of Music.

Beyond performance, Nathan is passionate about cinema. Through his LA-based production company, Hazard Productions, he bridges the worlds of classical music and film, connecting top classical minds with the creative forces of movie and TV production. This unique blend of experiences has allowed Nathan to explore new and exciting projects that highlight the strengths of both art forms.

TEDDY ABRAMS

Music Director, Composer

The winner of a Grammy Award and Musical America’s 2022 Conductor of the Year, Teddy Abrams has been the galvanizing force behind the Louisville Orchestra’s extraordinary artistic renewal and innovative social impact since his appointment as Music Director in September 2014. His Kentucky achievements include the Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps, a trailblazing residency initiative for composers; the In Harmony Tour, a grand-scale community- building project funded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and adventurous collaborations with artists including Chris Thile, Jim James, Jack Harlow, Storm Large, and Jecorey “1200” Arthur, with whom Abrams founded the Louisville Orchestra Rap School.

Beyond Louisville, Abrams has conducted the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Cincinnati, National, Houston,Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Vancouver, and Phoenix Symphonies; the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; the Buffalo and Los Angeles Philharmonics; and the Minnesota, Florida, and Sarasota Orchestras, all in North America, as well as the Helsinki and Luxembourg Philharmonics and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Europe. He makes debuts with the Atlanta Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, and London’s BBC Symphony Orchestra in the 2025-26 season.

Abrams is an award-winning composer, whose recent compositions for the Louisville Orchestra include his rap opera, The Greatest: Muhammad Ali; a piano concerto for Yuja Wang, which they recorded for Deutsche Grammophon’s The American Project, winning the pianist and himself a Grammy Award; and Mammoth, premiered with Yo-Yo Ma and Davóne Tines at Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park. Abrams’s recording of his piano collection Preludes was released on New Amsterdam Records in 2025. He is now at work on a Broadway musical, ALI, and an orchestral history of the state of Kentucky.

GABRIEL GLOBUS-HOENICH

Percussion, Composer, Founder - People of Earth

Gabriel Globus-Hoenich blends a multitude of musical influences in his work as a performer, composer, and educator. A Montreal native, Gabriel is now based in New York City, where his career reflects a deep love for jazz, classical, and world music. He has performed and recorded on drumset and percussion with a wide variety of artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, Jack Harlow, Morgan James, Jim James, Chris Thile, Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Yuja Wang, Omara Portuondo, Telmary Díaz, Roberto Fonseca, Tirso Duarte, Steve Hackman, the Philly Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and Louisville Orchestra, among others.

Gabriel performed on the 2024 Grammy-winning album The American Project by Yuja Wang and Teddy Abrams and toured with Chris Thile and the Louisville Orchestra performing Thile’s concerto ATTENTION. He is also an active Broadway musician, currently performing as a substitute percussionist on Alicia Keys’ hit show Hell’s Kitchen.

In 2017, Gabriel founded People of Earth, a 12-piece Cuban timba band featuring some of New York City’s finest musicians, representing a wide range of cultural backgrounds. People of Earth has performed at venues including Disney Hall, Carnegie Hall, the New World Center, the Mann Center, and the Kennedy Center. For more information, visit www.peopleofearthmusic.com.

An active composer and arranger, Gabriel has written orchestral arrangements for Grammy-winning artists Sam Bush, Cory Henry, and Sara Jarosz, as well as Achilles Liarmakopolous of the Canadian Brass, Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre, and the Louisville Orchestra. He received a 2023 BRIO Award from the Bronx Council for the Arts for his work in composition.

In addition to his work in orchestral and jazz settings, Gabriel has completed extensive world percussion studies, including Afro-Brazilian percussion in Salvador, Bahia with Gabi Guedes and Mario Pam, and Cuban percussion with Giraldo Piloto, Rociel Riveron, and Adonis Panter Calderón. He continues to work as a teaching artist for the 92nd Street Y and Marquis Studios and was formerly a teaching artist with Play On Philly! and musician-in-residence at The Please Touch Museum.

Gabriel is a 2008 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Don Liuzzi and Robert van Sice.