Amarante Nat is an Amsterdam-based Dutch composer. She studied composition with Yannis Kyriakides and Martijn Padding at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, and voice with Noa Frenkel. Her work has been performed by, among others, the Residentie Orkest, the Adam Quartet and Kluster5, and presented at festivals and venues including Gaudeamus, Wonderfeel, Orgelpark, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, TivoliVredenburg and Dag in de Branding. In 2027, she will be composer-in-residence at the Hear and Now Festival.

Driven by a fascination with timbre and the subtle qualities of harmony, Nat’s compositions seek to create new experiences of sound and harmony. Her music moves with a sensitivity to the way sound unfolds in time and space. Melodies can stretch into a still yet resonant landscape, at the same time containing depth and subtle movement, sometimes touching upon something more dance-like.
Until spring 2027, Nat is Nieuwe Maker at Orgelpark in Amsterdam, as part of a two-year program supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten. The residency gives her space to deepen her exploration of sound and musical imagination. She curates concert programmes, seeking new connections between composition, voice, performance and other art forms. Next to that, she wrote Through Absence For the Residentie Orkest, with its first performance on 6 November 2026.

Nat describes herself as someone who “feels at home in the poetry of spaces & listens through movement”. This captures something essential about her practice: music for her is not only sonic, but also physical, spatial and theatrical. Voice plays a central role in her work and can be a point of departure for her compositional process: from the connection to voice, breath and body, she derives phrasing, timing and harmonic gestures. While composition and voice remain at the center of her practice, she increasingly explores how body, movement and space can become materially integrated into performance. In 2024, she composed and choreographed 5 Studies for Walking Trombones, created in collaboration with choreographer and stage director Peter Leung.