Nathan is a two-time GRAMMY Award-winning composer and violist of the Attacca Quartet. Nathan has collaborated, in the studio and on stage, with many of the great artists of today including Björk, James Blake, Billie Eilish, Finneas, David Crosby, Becca Stevens, Just Blaze and others. Nathan is a PhD Candidate in composition at Princeton University and an Honorary Ambassador to the city of Chuncheon, South Korea.

Nathan has released three solo records of his own compositions, Let Me Out, Nearsided and Oak and the Ghost, on Better Company Records and New Amsterdam Records. As a member of Attacca, Schram has released records on Sony Classical, GroundUP Music, Nonesuch, and New Amsterdam Records. Attacca’s records, Orange and Evergreen, won GRAMMY Awards for Best Chamber Music Performance in 2020 and 2023. His arrangement of Radiohead’s 2 + 2 = 5 written for Becca Stevens and Attacca Quartet was also nominated at the 2023 GRAMMY Awards.

Apart from performing, Nathan is the Founder and Artistic Director of Musicambia. Founded in 2013, Musicambia develops music education programs and performances inside prisons and jails throughout the United States. As a deep believer in prison abolition and the irrepressible power of music, Musicambia strives to humanize the criminal legal system of the United States.