Tortoiseshell Music Home of composer Nathan Curtis

I’m Nathan Curtis, a serious composer of silly music, and vice versa. I am a bass trombonist, but I also play too many other instruments not well enough to identify myself with any of them. I was born in New York, I grew up in northern Virginia, and now I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. If you want to learn more about me, you have several options:

For general background information, including a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with music, see my bio.

If you’re more interested in my musical background, check out my CV and my compositional philosophy.

To find out more about Tortoiseshell Music and tortoiseshellmusic.com, take a look at the site info and arbitrarily posed questions.

Still want to know more? Well, you could just check out the rest of my site. And if that's not enough for you, and can always contact me.