About Nat

Nat Seelen is a musician, educator, and nonprofit leader based in Boston, MA. Nat began his musical training in the preparatory department of New England Conservatory, where he studied jazz, music theory, and early music. Nat graduated from Brown with a Bachelor’s in Music Theory, History, and Composition and an honors thesis in ethnomusicology focused on klezmer music. After Brown, Nat moved to Cambridge, MA, where he started the internationally-recognized Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band and developed an active freelance career on clarinet, saxophone, and percussion. A composer and writer as well as a performer, Nat won first prize in the 2020 Kleztival Bubbe Awards for Best Original Klezmer Tune, first prize in the 2015 Klezmer Company Orchestra Composition Competition and a 2016 Iguana Music Fund grant to write a pedagogical text on klezmer music. Nat reviews concerts for AllAboutJazz and has performed on clarinet, saxophones, and percussion with Hankus Netsky, OktoEcho, The Macrotones, The Longwood Symphony, The Mercury Symphony, and many others.

Nat’s Work with JArts

JArts is the producing partner for the Boston Festival of New Jewish Music, which I founded and direct. I’ve also worked with JArts through Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band and individually.

How You Can Work Together

I would love to write, perform, or record music for you! Looking to collaborate with authors, artists, dancers, and anyone else who loves great music.