Midnight On the Water

Midnight on the Water Philadelphia's newest and most innovative string ensemble whose performers are equally at home across all musical genres. This performance will consist of music many different styles, including traditional, pop, classical, and jazz. To learn more about Midnight On the Water, visit them online at www.midnightonthewater.com or see the performers' bios, below.

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Bios of "Midnight On the Water" Performers

Nathan Bishop is a violinist, violist, Irish traditional fiddler, and teacher based in New Jersey. A mentee of the avant-garde fiddler Cleek Schrey, Nathan is a current collaborator with JoAnna Mendl Shaw’s Equus Project and Andy Sowers of Mabou Mines, where he pairs live fiddle with pre-recorded soundscapes to accompany dance and theater. He is a past artist-in-residence at the Mignolo Arts Center. In the traditional scene, he regularly performs solo and in collaboration with Fiona Tyndall, Judy Minot, Patrick Clifford, and with his contra dance band, Squirrel’s Chair. In 2023, his Irish folk trio, Faoileán, released their first album, Far Hills. He founded and hosts the bi-weekly Irish seisiún at Flounder Brewing Co. in Hillsborough, NJ. Nathan studied classical violin with Nancy Roth and Dr. Elena Chernova-Davis. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2019, receiving the Scott Cagenello Memorial Prize for “special commitment to helping others in the university community.” He is concertmaster for the Hunterdon Symphony, principal 2nd for Orchestra360, and a core baroque violinist with La Fiocco. He also assistant conducts the Hunterdon Symphony, conducted Hunterdon Musical Arts’ Music for Youth "Saturday Strings" program from 2017-2023, and directs a yearly Irish/early music fusion concert with the Highland Park Recorder Society. A dedicated teacher, Nathan is adjunct faculty at the annual Folk College festival and Ministry of Folk artist, and teaches privately out of his small cottage in Somerville, NJ.

Tom Krumm is a performer who specializes in versatility. He has logged performances with artists of every genre, ranging from Roseanne Cash to Jacob Collier to Aloe Blacc to Al Kooper, and many more. He's also performed with the contra dance band Live Wire, the swing band Swingology, and as a ringer for concert and pit orchestras throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Most recently, he appeared as soloist alongside Grammy award-winning fiddler Jay Ungar and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic in a performance his own original arrangement of Daybreak in the Mountains. A graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Tom logged over 400 hours of studio and performance time during his studies. He particularly enjoyed exploring microtonal Arabic music, which he credits with removing a range of limitations from his playing. Today, Tom exhibits an unusual capacity to play anything asked of him on violin, mandolin, and guitar in recording sessions and concerts across the east coast. His work as a educator includes teaching engagements at the Ashokan Music and Dance camps since the age of 17, and more recent work at the University of Pennsylvania and his own private teaching studio in Philadelphia. In his free time, he enjoys basketball, mixology, and hanging out with his cats, Banana and Bread.

Dani Hawkins has made music with the Boston Philharmonic, the Richardson Chamber Players, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, and various other ensembles and contradance bands. From 2010-2014, they played as one half of Driftwood Duet, which performed over 100 engagements a year and won consecutive Best of Gigmasters awards in 2012, 2013, and 2014, and Wedding Wire's Couple's Choice Award in 2014. In 2012, Dani released “Ride EP,” a DVD of original multimedia art based on footage and field recordings taken while living out of a van. Dani has taught cello at Maine Fiddle Camp, Fiddle Hell, Summertrios, Princeton in Asia, Open Access to Music Education, and Cornell University, and has studied cello, composition, and ethnomusicology at Princeton University, the New England Conservatory, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Cornell. Their ethnographic fieldwork has taken them to China's Hunan province, Brooklyn, Wet’suwet’en territory, Philadelphia, and rural New England, and they have presented scholarship at the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Studies Association, the Royal Society of Canada, and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. In addition to teaching undergraduate music classes, they’ve also designed and taught interdisciplinary seminars like “The Politics of Listening: Sound and Civic Life” and “Music in the Making and Unmaking of Race" at Memorial of University of Newfoundland, Cornell University, and Swarthmore College. They enjoy hot wings, bodysurfing in the summer, and jumping in lakes and rivers in the winter.