Nathan C. Ringkamp

Nathan Ringkamp (b. 2001) is pursuing a Prix de perfectionnement (Artist Diploma) in Organ Performance with Jean-Baptiste Robin at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Versailles, France, supported by the premier scholarship of the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians. He continues advanced studies in organ improvisation with David Cassan, titular organist at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris. In France, Nathan has been featured in collaborative recitals at the Royal Chapel of Versailles, Notre-Dame des Armées in Versailles, and Saint-Séverin in Paris for the Île-de-France Regional Conservatories. 

A 2025 graduate of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, Nathan earned a Master of Music in Organ Performance degree under Dr. John Walker and received the J.W. Lewis Performance Award upon graduation. He began organ lessons in 2019 and, after initially attending the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., for engineering, earned a Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance in 2023, studying with Benjamin LaPrairie. While at Catholic University, he studied organ improvisation with Ronald Stolk. 

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While at both Catholic University and Peabody, Nathan played for various liturgies at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception including Catholic University Masses broadcasted on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), the installation ceremony of the University’s 16th president, the 2023 graduating class’s Baccalaureate Mass, the University’s annual Christmas Concert for Charity, ordinations, pilgrimages, and, after becoming an Assisting Organist in 2023, assists with Daily Masses and Sunday Masses. 

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He previously served as Principal Organist at Saint Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church (Southwest Washington, D.C.); Director of Music and Organist at the National Shrine of Saint Alphonsus Liguori (Baltimore, Maryland); and Interim Director of Music and Organist at Zion Lutheran Church (Baltimore, Maryland). 

 

In 2024, he received the second-place prize in the Albert Schweitzer Young Professional Organ Competition as well as the Peabody Conservatory’s Donald S. Sutherland Endowed Organ Scholarship. He has been a featured solo recitalist at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington, D.C., and Christ Church Christiana Hundred in Wilmington, Delaware. He has also participated in masterclasses with Olivier Houette, Martin Jean, Isabel Demers, Felix Hell, Paul Jacobs, Jonathan Moyer, and David Hurd. When not in the organ loft, Nathan enjoys photography, cycling, golfing, traveling, and time with family in his hometown of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.