06/04/2025
We are thrilled to announce the newest addition to the !
After a comprehensive national search, please join us in welcoming Dr. Nathan Huvard as Assistant Professor of Guitar.
Dr. Huvard is equally at home on the concert stage, in the orchestra pit, and in the cabaret. With wide-ranging fluency on guitar, lute, theorbo, banjo, mandolin, and more, he is distinguished by his ability to move seamlessly across genres, instruments, and performance contexts. His versatility has earned him prominent roles on Broadway and at the Metropolitan Opera, where he performs regularly on plucked instruments in both contemporary and canonical productions.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Huvard has performed throughout North America in concert halls, opera houses, and theaters. Over his varied career, Nate has built a reputation as a flexible and thoughtful collaborator across early music, jazz, classical, new music, and theater.
“SUNY Fredonia has such a rich tradition of music—and of guitar in particular—and I’m honored to be part of that legacy,” says Huvard. “I’m excited to carry it forward and put my own stamp on the program, but what I’m most looking forward to is working with Fredonia’s talented, motivated, and diverse students. This is a truly unique place, and I feel lucky to be working with such inspiring students & colleagues.”
Huvard holds a D.M.A. from Stony Brook University, M.M. and M.M.A. degrees from the Yale School of Music, and a B.M. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also completed a year of intensive study in historical performance at The Juilliard School on a full scholarship. His primary mentors have included Benjamin Verdery, JoĂŁo Luiz Rezende, Daniel Swenberg, and Charles Weaver.
In his capacity as Assistant Professor of Guitar at SUNY Fredonia, Dr. Huvard is reimagining what a 21st-century guitar program can be. Under his leadership, Fredonia’s guitar program will offer students hands-on access to instruments such as theorbo, lutes, banjo, and mandolin with a curriculum that spans music from the 15th to the 21st centuries. Embracing folk, commercial, and concert music from across time and place, he will be teaching students performance practices while developing the technical, stylistic, and interpretive skills essential for life as modern musicians.
Welcome, Dr. Huvard! đź’™
