Nathan Currier is senior climate advisor for Public Policy Virginia as well as an award-winning classical composer. Currier has been a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project since 2007 and has presented to about 1,000 people on climate change. His climate talks have taken him to UNICEF headquarters at the United Nations, Columbia University, and New York University, among many others. Currier is also a strong advocate of James Lovelock’s Gaia theory, and recently co-authored a chapter of the book Chimeras and Consciousness (MIT Press, 2011) with NASA scientist Paul D. Lowman, concerning Gaia theory. His largest musical work, Gaian Variations, is an evening length oratorio about Gaia theory premiered on Earth Day 2004 at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. He has received numerous awards, such as the American Academy of Arts & Letters Academy Award, given for lifetime achievement in composition, as well as the Rome Prize, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, International Barlow Prize and International Sackler Awards. His music is published by Theodore Presser Co., recorded on the labels Chandos, New World Records, and Crystal Records, and has been commissioned by such organizations as the Berlin Philharmonic. His degrees are from Johns Hopkins University and Juilliard, and he has served on the faculties of Juilliard and the University of Virginia. He currently resides in New York City.

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