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Nathan Wang is one of the most successful composers in Hollywood and Asian cinema. Prolific and versatile, he has written music for Jackie Chan movies, Steven Spielberg documentaries, animated cartoons, operas, musicals, symphonies and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wang\u2019s musical journey began with classical music, when he started playing piano at age 3 with his mother\u2019s encouragement. His father soon introduced him to jazz artists, and after studying composition with famed composer Morten Lauridsen at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduating from Pomona College, Nathan received a Fulbright fellowship and a Rotary Ambassadorial scholarship to study post-graduate work in England. Upon returning overseas, he felt very fortunate to collaborate with Hans Zimmer on the music for Steven Spielberg\u2019s The Last Days<\/em><\/strong>, which won an Academy Award for best documentary in 1999. He was also commissioned to write an opera for Los Angeles Opera, spearheaded by Artistic Director Placido Domingo in 2000. Nathan received an Emmy for \u201cBest Arrangement of a Song\u201d for the award winning Showtime show called Reefer Madness<\/em><\/strong>. In 2011, he won another Emmy for the documentary film he wrote The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nathan has also been very involved in the Chinese film industry, writing scores for various Jackie Chan movies: Rumble in the Bronx<\/em><\/strong>, First Strike<\/em><\/strong>, Who Am I,<\/em><\/strong> and The Myth<\/em><\/strong>. He has also worked with many other leading actors in Asia. He was asked to compose for Wang Leehom\u2019s movie Love in Disguise<\/em><\/strong>, Zhang Ziyi\u2019s Sophie Revenge<\/em><\/strong>, and Aaron Kwok\u2019s Gen X Cops.<\/em><\/strong> In addition, he was honored to write for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2011, Nathan was invited by the Beijing DeTao Masters Academy to be a professor for the Academy; he has given lectures, master classes, and interviews about film music that took place in Beijing Central Conservatory of Music and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the way, he also began writing music for recording artists like Faye Wong, winning the prestigious Singapore Grammy award for his arrangement of her hit song I\u2019m Willing \u6211\u9858\u610f<\/em><\/strong>. Securing that award opened up many doors and put Nathan in demand by many other Chinese singers: Chang Yu \u5f35\u5b87, Kevin Zhang \u5f35\u4fe1\u54f2, Vivian Chow \u5468\u8559\u654f, Tarcy Su \u8607\u6167\u502b, Jackie Cheung \u5f35\u5b78\u53cb,<\/em><\/strong> just to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has also been a favorite musical director for many artists, in the United States as well as abroad. He has musical directed many shows for Jenny Tseng \u7504\u59ae, Alex To \u675c\u5fb7\u5049, Coco Lee \u674e\u739f, Yang ZongWei \u694a\u5b97\u7def, Jimmy Lin \u6797\u80b2\u7fa4, Su YouPong \u8607\u6709\u670b, Chen XiaoDong \u9673\u66c9\u6771, B.D. Wong, Lea Salonga, Tia Carrere, Kristin Chenowith, Kristen Bell, and David Hyde Pierce<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NingHao \u5be7\u6d69, the director of Crazy Stone \u760b\u72c2\u7684\u77f3\u982d, Crazy Driver \u760b\u72c2\u8cfd\u8eca\u624b,<\/em><\/strong> has had much success in teaming up with Nathan\u2019s work in his box office hits of No Man\u2019s Land<\/em><\/strong> and Guns and Roses<\/em><\/strong>. His underscore can be heard in \u5f35\u67cf\u829dCecilia Cheung and \u6b0a\u76f8\u4f51 Kwon Sang Woo\u2019s movie Shadow Lover \u5f71\u5b50\u611b\u4eba<\/em><\/strong> and also Dayyan Eng\u2019s \u4f0d\u4ed5\u8ce2 movie Inseparable \u5f62\u5f71\u4e0d\u96e2<\/em><\/strong> starring Kevin Spacey and Daniel Wu \u5433\u5f65\u7956.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nathan has not neglected the musical stage over the years, having written the musical Imelda<\/em><\/strong> in 2005, a big hit at EastWest Players Theater in Los Angeles. It ran for an extended eight weeks, and was so popular that it was invited to be produced on off-Broadway four years later. It had a successful run at the Julia Miles Theater.. He also collaborated with award winning American playwright Velina Hasu Houston to write the musical Cinnamon Girl<\/em><\/strong>, which was produced at the Greenway Court Theater in 2014. Its success in Los Angeles took this production to China, where it was performed at Beijing University that same year. Because of Nathan\u2019s reputation and the popularity of this musical at the University, he was asked to write two more musicals for Beijing University, in 2018 and this year: Cai Yuen Pei \u5143\u57f9\u6821\u957f, a classical story of the founder of the University, and Birds of Paradise \u5c0f\u9e1f\u5929\u5802, a fable told in a fantastical setting about today\u2019s all important issue of climate change. In 2019, Nathan was commissioned to write a musical called Papa Can You Hear Me Sing \u9152\u5e72\u5018\u5356\u65e0<\/em><\/strong>, based on a very popular Taiwan movie. It had a successful run in Beijing, and ultimately toured the country in 14 cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bouncing back and forth, Nathan enjoys working on both sides of the Pacific. He just finished scoring a movie One True Loves<\/em><\/strong>, based on the best selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid and starring Simu Liu (Shang-Chi) and Phillippa Soo (Hamilton). Nathan is now working on a 24 part Chinese television drama called Ordinary Hero \u4ed6\u662f\u8c01 which features Jiang Yi (\u5f20\u8bd1), as well as a Chinese movie called I Hear You Please Reply<\/strong>, \u542c\u5230 \u8bf7\u56de\u7b54<\/strong>, which stars Wang Qian Yuan \u738b\u5343\u6e90and  Jiang Qin Qin \u848b\u52e4\u52e4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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