Nathaniel Parke is a member of the Bennington String Quartet, the Adirondack Baroque Players and is principal cello of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra . He has also been a member of the Boston Composers String Quartet with whom he can be heard performing new works by Boston composers on the MMC label. He is currently an adjunct teacher of cello at Williams College and at SUNY Albany. He has served as a faculty member and chamber music coach at the Longy School of Music, Skidmore College, and the Chamber Music Conference and Composer's Forum of the East. As a soloist, he has been heard with the Wellesley Symphony and the Sage City Symphony. His free-lance work in the Albany and Boston areas ranges from period instrument performances to premieres of new works. He received his training at the Longy School of Music and Bennington College studying with George Neikrug and Maxine Neuman and in London with William Pleeth.