Nathan Riebli is an enthusiastic composer and performer from the San Francisco bay Area. Nathan received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of the Pacific in 2007 and the Master of Music from the University of Missouri - Kansas City in 2009, both in composition. During the summer of 2004 he served as a student ambassador to China for the University of Pacific, and returned in 2008 to research opera and folk music at the Central Conservatory in Beijing.

Mr. Riebli received the lower and upper classmen awards for Outstanding Achievement in Composition from the University of the Pacific. He was Highly Commended by the Arklow International Music Composition Competition of Ireland in 2005 for his song for baritone, Swaggering Swaggerer.

In 2007 Mr. Riebli’s first opera, Song of the Cricket – A Tragic Opera in One Act, was performed by the UOP Conservatory of Music Opera Department for New Voices, New Opera from Pacific. In 2008 he was commissioned to write A Welcome Rain One Spring Night for the Atholton High School Chamber Orchestra of Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Riebli’s second opera, Rock Hard Woman – A Comic Book Opera, was premiered in 2009 as part of the UMKC Opera Scenes concert. Nathan’s composition teachers include Robert Coburn, Francois Rose, Kohei Mukai, Zhou Long, James Mobberley, Joao Pedro Oliveira, John Psathas, and Chen Yi.

Mr. Riebli is also an avid instrumentalist and director, and performs regularly around the San Francisco Bay Area. He recieved an Excellence in Performance Scholarship for tuba to both UOP and UMKC, where he actively played in wind ensemble and orchestra. Nathan sings tenor and is accompanist for the Occidental Community Choir. Currently he is tubist for the Ukiah Symphony, the Wine Country Brass Quintet, and Santa Rosa Junior College ensembles. He has performed with the Stockton Symphony and the Santa Rosa Reading Orchestra. Currently, he directs the Sebastopol Band of California and was recently hired as instructor of tuba and euphonium at the Santa Rosa Junior College. His tuba teachers include Douglas Hunt and Thomas Stein. Nathan also plays piano, guitar, and bagpipes.