Nate Strothkamp

Nate Strothkamp is a twenty year-old violinist from Portland, Oregon. A current student of Wendy Sharp at Yale University, Nate has appeared as a soloist with the Oregon Symphony, Beaverton Symphony Orchestra, and Portland Youth Philharmonic and was selected as a 2022 All Classical Portland Young Artist Ambassador. In Portland, Nate studied with Carol Sindell, served as co-concertmaster of the Portland Youth Philharmonic from 2019-2022, and was invited to play in the Oregon Symphony and Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. He has attended the YellowBarn, Moritzburg, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Castleman, and Bowdoin festivals. Recently, Nate was selected as a participant in the 2022 New York String Orchestra Seminar with Jaime Laredo. Additionally, he was chosen as a co-winner of the 2023 Yale Symphony Orchestra William Waite Concerto Competition and will perform with YSO in 2024. Inspired by his five years with Project Prelude, Nate is simultaneously pursuing music, education studies, and American studies at Yale while playing in a piano quintet and the Yale Symphony Orchestra.

(Winter 2023)