Nathan Knight

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Nathan Knight

Double bass player Nathan joined the Orchestra in July 2025.

He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with a BMus (1st Class Honours) and won the Orchestral Regency Award before going on to study a PGDip at Trinity Laban Conservatoire with Leon Bosch.

Nathan has won Principal trials with BBC NOW, Opera North, Ulster, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Guest Principal with Chineke, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Manchester Camerata, as well as regularly performing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He is a member of Decus Ensemble and is regularly invited to do session work with Chamber Orchestra of London & Isobel Griffiths LTD.

Career highlights include winning the Charles Hallé Award on the RNCM/Hallé SLTS, London Philharmonic Orchestra Foyle Future First, semi-finalist in the 2016 5th Biennial Double Bass Solo competition and 2021 Royal Overseas League String Category and was a 2020 Britten Pears Artist. Recently, you may have seen him in a few episodes of CBeebies’ Musical Storyland!

On his appointment, Nathan said: “I'm incredibly excited to be joining the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra as Associate Principal Double Bass. As a teenager, I was fortunate enough to be able to play in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall many times as a member of National Youth Orchestra. It has been a fantastic experience playing there now as a professional musician and becoming reacquainted with that great acoustic and fantastic audiences. It feels fitting that I can take the next step in my career with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and contribute to an organisation whose work I very much admire.”