Nathaniel Clifford Nate Walcott is an American musical composer, arranger, and multiinstrumentalist. He has composed the scores for four featurelength films, including 2014s The Fault in Our Stars. He is a member of the band Bright Eyes, and has played in Conor Obersts Mystic Valley Band and with singersongwriter M. Ward. He has also toured with the likes of the James Mercer and Danger Mouseled group Broken Bells, Rilo Kiley, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. In the studio, he has performed on the albums of such artists as She amp Him, U2, Beck, Jason Mraz, Maroon 5, and the Shins and has contributed arrangements to artists such as First Aid Kit, Jenny Lewis, Rilo Kiley, Pete Yorn, Cursive, The Faint, Eleni Mandell, Harper Simon, Maria Taylor, Rachael Yamagata, and The Concretes.
Nathaniel Clifford Walcott was born on March 6, 1978 in Albany, New York. While a young child, his family moved to the Central New York village of East Homer. When Walcott was 8, his family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska.
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