Dr. Nathan Siegel

Nathan Siegel is a percussionist, composer and educator who resides in Temple, TX.

He recently just finished his DMA at the University of North Texas. He received his

Master’s in percussion performance from the University of Colorado Boulder and his

Bachelor’s from Indiana University. He was most recently appointed as the Assistant

Professor of Percussion at Temple College and Texas A&M-Central Texas.

Before coming to Temple College, Nathan served as the director and arranger of The

Sound and the Fury Drumline at Tarleton State University. While at UNT, Nathan

served as a teaching fellow conducting studio lessons, coaching one of the

Percussion Ensembles, instructing the Steel Band and leading and facilitating

various repair and maintenance projects across the College of Music. He has

engaged at over 40 public schools across Texas, Indiana, Michigan, Colorado and

Ohio as a clinician, technician or guest artist.He has also taught at Zephyrus, Legends

and Genesis drum and bugle corps, serving as the Front Ensemble caption head and

has taught at Vigilantes Indoor Percussion since 2021. Nathan has had the

opportunity to present a clinic on Improvisation at the marimba titled “Fun with

Improvisin” at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in 2023, which

has led him to present at over 15 univeristy programs across the country. Nathan

also creates online content geared towards percussion and marimba technique

across several social media platforms, maintaining an audience of over 11,000

people.

As a performer, Nathan has played in numerous regional orchestras and wind

ensembles most recently playing as a soloist with the North Central Texas winds. He

has performed twice at the Denton Arts and Jazz festival with the Four ‘o clock lab

band, the UNT percussion ensemble and the African Drum and Dance Ensemble.

Nathan performed with the UNT percussion ensemble in a tour in Poland in the Fall

of 2023. In Fall of 2024, Nathan and his friends Jonah Payne and John Wayne Duke

started a percussion collective based in DFW called Spilled Milk where they perform

new music for percussion by local composers. They have performed several local

concerts and notably at the 2025 North Garland Percussion festival.

As a composer, Nathan just finished a set of octave etudes for the intermediate

mallet player published by C. Alan Publications. He recently won the Vibraphone

Project’s Call for Scores competition in 2024, where his work “Space We Created”

was performed on a national stage. Nathan hopes to write more music for

percussion that prioritizes accessibility and specific technical challenges to help

students grow. He has also arranged music for front ensembles and high school

percussion studios across the DFW metroplex.

Nathan is a member of the Percussive Arts Society, serving on the World Percussion

Committee, the Texas Music Educators Association and is endorsed by Salyers

Percussion as an Educational Artist.