About
Nate Walcott is an arranger, composer, keyboard player, and trumpet player. He is a member of the band Bright Eyes, and also plays in Conor Oberst’s Mystic Valley Band. He has also toured with the likes of Lullaby for the Working Class, the Autumn Defense, Rilo Kiley, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. In the studio, he has contributed arrangements to artists such as Maria Taylor, Pete Yorn, Cursive, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, Rachael Yamagata, and The Concretes.
In addition to spending the majority of 2007 touring the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan with Bright Eyes, he wrote the orchestral arrangements for the band’s September 29th performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.
The years 2008 and 2009 found Walcott recording and touring the globe with Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, playing the occasional date with Bright Eyes, contributing string and horn arrangements to several albums, and, (alongside friend and associate Michael Mogis), composing the score for the Nik Fakler-directed film Lovely Still, starring cinematic luminaries Ellen Burstyn and Martin Landau.
2010 was a busy year spent working on the recently-released Bright Eyes album The People’s Key — and also touring with the James Mercer and Danger Mouse-led project Broken Bells.
Walcott currently resides in the city of Los Angeles and is in the midst of a worldwide tour with Bright Eyes.