Growing up in Kansas City, Nathan Granner attended Kansas State University, Johnson County Community College and finally University of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory of Music, graduating with a vocal performance degree and lots of credits. His professional career began at Utah Festival Opera singing chorus and drinking many beers. His early career was the standard for world talent as he sang premiere, lead and title roles at Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Theater St. Louis, Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Pittsburgh Opera Center. He made Semi-Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, sang with the National Symphony Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society and the Baltimore Symphony. 

 

 During the 2005 – 2006 season, Nathan produced a successful double national tour, performing for nearly 33,000 patrons in 35 American cities, with classical guitarist Beau Bledsoe to support their recently released CD, Departure, and with Soprano Lisa Williamson in their “Waiting for Guffman”- meets-Anna-Russell-type comedic opera concert, I Dolci Canti. 

Mr. Granner has also been a force in the Kansas City Metropolitan area, working and collaborating throughout the community as an artistic director, a general manager and as an entrepreneur, owning and chairing two arts organizations.

In addition to creating a new role for a new major musical and extensive concertizing Nathan is currently co-founder and President of KCMETROPOLIS.org, Kansas City’s new online journal of the Performing Arts,. The journal is in its first year of publication and has a roster of 25 contributors, columnists and videographers. 

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