New Works | Arts Education | Community Works
NATE GILKES is a Helpmann award winning musician, music and artistic director working at the colliding points of music, theatre and opera.
“Riffing on organ, Gilkes connects the dots between Bach and Philip Glass, Mike Oldfield and even the Presets. ”
Nate breaks his work down into three broad practice areas:
NEW WORKS
at the colliding points of Music,Theatre and Opera
Innovative new Music Theatre. This kind of work sits in between Opera, Music Theatre and Contemporary Music.
ARTS EDUCATION AND TRAINING
at the colliding points of Music,Theatre and Opera
Nate is a leading arts educator working in schools and universities, with primary, secondary and tertiary students and Voice Studio for 1 on 1 singing training.
COMMUNITY WORKS
at the colliding points of Music,Theatre and Opera
Showcasing communities and bringing out the unseen and unheard stories that live around us
“Passionately performed music led by Nathan Gilkes and bold experiments with the body maintained a rolling rhythm, almost a heartbeat, throughout the production.”
“Classical choruses mix with pop tunes sung in Indigenous languages, and traditional percussion plays against orchestral instruments and live foley ...the stirring scale achieved by moments like a drag Britney Spears performance, and a truly horrifying adaptation of spiritual ‘Them Bones’”