About

Nathan Juarez is a versatile percussionist, vocalist, composer, and educator originally from West Texas. His performance work spans solo, chamber, orchestral, and compositional settings with a creative focus centered on exploring the intersection of percussion and voice. Through commissioning, composition, arrangement, and performance, he works to expand the possibilities and repertoire of the singing percussionist, including recent collaborations with internationally recognized composers such as Susie Ibarra, Felipe Lara and Michael Udow.

Juarez has performed throughout the United States and internationally in a wide range of solo and ensemble settings. In 2026, he toured across Europe with the World Percussion Group as Co-Principal and Composer-in-Residence, traveling across twelve countries, and presenting five clinics and a masterclass at Universities in Croatia, France, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain. His local performance experience includes appearances with the Eugene Symphony, Eugene Opera, Yakima Symphony, Orchestra Nova Northwest, Oregon Mozart Players, Orchestra Next, and the Amarillo Symphony.

As a composer and arranger, Juarez creates music for solo, chamber, percussion ensemble, wind ensemble, and orchestral settings. His work as a composer and performer continues to focus on creating new opportunities for percussionists to engage with the voice as an expressive musical instrument. His current artistic work includes, Cycles and Spheres, a commissioning, performance, and recording project centered on new music for voice and percussion.

An active educator, Juarez has taught students of all ages in private and group settings throughout West Texas and Oregon. He has served as a Graduate Employee in Percussion and Music Theory at the University of Oregon, where he frequently integrates his experience as a performer and composer into his teaching. He holds a Master of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Music Education from West Texas A&M University. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance and a Master of Arts in Music Theory at the University of Oregon.