Nathan Bryon is an Australian tenor, currently studying an Artist Diploma at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is a San Francisco District Winner of The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2024), the Melba Opera Trust Dame Heather Begg Memorial Award (2023), the Australian Music Foundation Yvonne Kenny Award (2023) as well as the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship (2022).

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Nathan joins the prestigious Merola Opera Program in 2024 at the San Francisco Opera, covering the role of Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, among other assignments. Nathan is also the recipient of the 2024 Michael Byrne Vienna State Opera Award from the Opera Foundation for young Australians, and will commence the award at the Wiener Staatsoper in early 2025. 

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Recent performances include Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) for SFCM Opera, A Symphonic Christmas with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the Brahms 'Neue Liebeslieder Waltzer' with the San Francisco Bach Choir. Nathan also attended the Aspen Music Festival in 2023 under the leadership of Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers. He performed the role of Christopf in Jimmy López's Bel Canto, and covered the roles of Arbace and the High Priest of Neptune in Mozart's Idomeneo. Roles include The Magician (The Consul), and Silvio/Dr. Miracle/Pasquin (Le Docteur Miracle) for SFCM Opera, and Acis (Acis and Galatea) for Ensemble Polypheme./..

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Nathan has extensive experience as an oratorio soloist amongst Sydney choirs and orchestras. He has performed Mozart's Requiem (Penrith Symphony Orchestra), JS Bach's St Matthew Passion (Operantics), Stainer's Crucifixion (St Stephen's Uniting Church), Durante's Missa in C ,Vivaldi's Magnificat (Central Coast Chorale), Haydn's Die Schöpfung (Central Coast Chorale) Maunder's Olivet to Calvary (St Stephen's Uniting Church), Handel's Messiah (Manly-Warringah Choral Society), Haydn's Nelson Mass (Manly-Warringah Choral Society), Mozart's Mass in C Minor (Manly Warringah Choral Society). Nathan is a proud alumnus of the Melba Opera Trust, and has performed with MOT in partnership with Melbourne Digital Concert Hall for Melba: Her Legacy in Concert.

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In 2019, Nathan attended the New Zealand Singing School, where he was presented with the Beatrice Webster Award for the pursuit of excellence. He was also the  winner of the inaugural Demant Dreikurs Lieder Competition, as well as the Sydney Conservatorium Association Award for Excellence in Vocal Studies for 2019.

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Nathan holds a Bachelor of Music (Performance) from the Sydney
Conservatorium of Music.

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