Biography

Meet Nathaniel...

Biography

Nathaniel Mo is a student of Dr. Dror Biran at the University of Louisville School of Music, majoring in piano performance.

For his senior high school year (2012 - 2013), Nathaniel Mo attended Interlochen Arts Academy with a merit scholarship, studying piano with Dr. TJ Lymenstull.

From January 2002 through August 2012, Nathaniel studied with Dr. Janet Bass Smith in his hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky. He has also participated, with a merit scholarship, in Indiana University's summer Piano Academy in 2006, 2007, and 2008, and attended the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts program in 2011.

As a soloist, Nathaniel won the Kentucky Music Teachers Association (KMTA) state competition at the elementary level in 2005, as well as the junior level in 2007. In 2008, he won the Music Teacher's National Association (MTNA) state-level junior competition. Most recently, he won the Kentucky state MTNA Young Artist piano competition in 2013.

As part of a six-hands piano ensemble with his brothers, he won KMTA state piano ensemble competitions at the junior level in 2003 and 2004, and at the senior level in 2005.

Together with his brother Gabriel, he won second place at the 2010 MTNA national senior duet competition. (See www.the-mos.com for info on their duet experience.)