Nathen Durasamy is a British born Mauritian composer and classical guitarist. Currently working as a composer and scoring assistant to Segun Akinola.
Nathen was the first composition student in the history of Trinity Laban to receive 100% in the postgraduate final recital.
His orchestrations featured at the BBC Proms in 2023. He has worked with Jax Jones, Omni Music Publishers, The Last Dinner Party, St Pauls Sinfonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Misbourne Symphony Orchestra.
He has received multiple awards for his compositions. Including the Award of Excellence and the Daryl Runswick Orchestral prize (judged by Stephen Fry).
Previously a composition and music technology tutor at London’s Trinity Laban conservatoire of music and dance in the junior department .
Nathen was taught Composition by Gwyn Pritchard, John Ashton Thomas, Stephen Montague and Matt Roberts.
Stephen Fry on Nathen’s Orchestral work Enantiodromia:
“Marvellous piece, lovely dark openings in the cello and basses. A lot of wonderful texture and colour built into a terrific harmonically rich mixture..
An odd thing to say about music but I thought it was complex, I thought it was intelligent. There was a lot going on, the brass section was so beautifully coloured, a lot of rhythmic power, terrific orchestration generally speaking
Someone might say there was too much for such a small canvas but I thought it fitted really well. I was immensely impressed.”
