About me
Natalie Van Horn’s music features stories or experiences that informs the processes and form of the music. These stories and experiences tend to be explored through an emotional perspective rather than a literal interpretation. Acoustic and electronic sounds are used to evoke the emotions processed through the music.
Van Horn’s work has been performed in venues such as Salty Cricket and Utah Composers Collective and Vu Symposium. Van Horn’s recent electronic works include Chatter for fixed media, Thunder Storm for electronics controlled by WiiMote, and Spell for the Lost for voice and WiiMote. She has written Procrastination for flute, clarinet, bassoon, percussion and harp for the Nova Chamber Music Series and Hesitations for viola de gamba for Ambrynn Bowman. Recent premieres include: Oddity for wind quintet by Diego Plata on flute, Erika Quereshi on oboe, Jairo Velazquez on clarinet, Osvaldo Rodriguez on horn, and Jessica Wiley on bassoon; and Spell for the Lost for voice and electronic sounds controlled by WiiMote by Vanessa Wijaya and Esteban Acosta; and Emergency for string quartet.
Van Horn will be recording and premiering Cluster Clash with Alex Marshall at the end of May and recording and premiering Hesitations with Ambrynn Bowman in the fall.
Natalie Van Horn has a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Composition from University of Utah. She has studied with Elisabet Curbelo, Miguel Chauqui, Devin Maxwell and Igor Iachimciuc.