natalie nowytski
award-winning
composer, performer, educator
superpower: eastern european vocal styling
music and sound healing
at the junction of ancestry & play
Natalie Nowytski changes the molecules in the room.
She works at the intersection of music, ancestry, and sound healing as an award-winning composer, vocal alchemist, multi-instrumentalist, and educator. Natalie weaves ancestry and language through compositions, workshops, and performances for theater, dance, choirs, chamber ensembles, and just about anything that brings together disparate ideas and people.
With more than 50 languages in her musical repertoire and a composer's sonic palette deeply rooted in her Ukrainian heritage, Natalie creates genre-blending music that defies easy categorization. What she calls her superpower—Eastern European vocal techniques—is a skill honed through a lifetime of global music study and performances with everything from folk ensembles to orchestras to indie bands. Switching comfortably between Balkanesque folk, operatic sweetness, and otherworldly mouth sounds, she’s often sought out as an “exotic” voice, lending her skills for Balkan party music with Orkestar Bez Ime, ambient post-modern improvisations with Paris1919, chamber pop with Follow the Firefly, American folk with Country Roads, and a range of other appearances including sound baths with Marc Anderson, as a special guest soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, occasional looper-driven solo performances, and even voiceovers. She has received composition and performance awards from the McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, American Composers Forum, SAGE Awards, and Minnesota State Arts Board. Find her music on Bandcamp for a taste.
As a classically trained somatic voice coach and sound energy worker, she helps people reclaim confidence and discover what “home” sounds like in their body through consulting, grief/primal singing workshops, and sound baths steeped in the wisdom of sonic anatomy.
As an educator, Natalie’s vast skills combined with her disarming nature make her an in-demand teacher, coach, and mentor whose unique pedagogy cuts through clients’ deep-seated barriers. She teaches both in academia and business settings and has mentored a number of music professionals. She has served as university guest faculty across the U.S. and has helped develop new degree programs.
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Current projects
- AM Supperclub (original indie pop)
- Marc Anderson & Third Eye Collaborative (sound baths)
- Country Roads (the music of John Denver)
- Follow the Firefly (chamber pop)
- Natalie & Scott (folk, rock, & originals)
- Orkestar Bez Ime (Balkan party music)
- Paris1919 (post-modern ambient)
- Siren Collective (vocal improv energy work)
- The Last Babushka (theater production, composer & lyricist)
A sampling:
Upcoming events
Oct 3 • 1pm
Stone Moss (Plum City, WI)
Rewilding the Voice retreat
with Laurel Armstrong and Milissa Link
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Oct 14 • 5:30pm
House of Balls (Minneapolis, MN)
with Siren Collective
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Oct 18 • 10am
Unity in the Heart (St. Paul, MN)
Sunday service
Oct 28 • 7:30pm
The Parkway Theater (Minneapolis, MN)
live film score with Paris1919
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Nov 7 • 8pm
Tapestry Folkdance Center (Minneapolis, MN)
with Orkestar Bez Ime
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Nov 8 • 2pm
St. Michael's and St. George's Church (Minneapolis, MN)
100th jubilee + a tribute to Peter Ostroushko
Nov 18 • time TBD
Richfield United Methodist Church (Richfield, MN)
with Orkestar Bez Ime
Nov 21 • 7:30pm
Zen Arcade (Minneapolis, MN)
Album release party
with Follow the Firefly and Matt Wilson
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Dec 4 • time TBD
Tattersall Distilling (River Falls, WI)
Spiked!
Dec 5 • time TBD
Tattersall Distilling (River Falls, WI)
Spiked!
Dec 6 • time TBD
Tattersall Distilling (River Falls, WI)
Spiked!
Dec 16 • time TBD
Ice House (Minneapolis, MN)
Tofte Lake Center Alumni Showcase
Dec 20 • time TBD
Cedar Cultural Center (Minneapolis, MN)
Winter Solstice Sound Bath
with Marc Anderson and Third Eye Collaborative
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Jan 23 • time TBD
U of Wisconsin-Madison Student Union Ballroom (Madison, WI)
Folk Ball with Orkestar Bez Ime
Feb 7 • 2pm
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (Chanhassen, MN)
with Country Roads
Feb 7 • 7pm
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (Chanhassen, MN)
with Country Roads
Feb 20 • 7:30pm
YMCA Camp St. Croix (Hudson, WI)
SNOPA with Orkestar Bez Ime
April 8 • time TBD
Sokol Hall (St. Paul, MN)
National Folk Org Conference
with Orkestar Bez Ime
May 14 • time TBD
Valley Community Presbyterian Church (Golden Valley, MN)
Fridays in the Valley with Follow the Firefly
June 11 • time TBD
Minnesota Square Park (St. Peter, MN)
Young John Denver Festival
with Country Roads
July 12-18
Woolman Hill Retreat Center (Deerfield, MA)
Village Harmony Adult Residential Camp
Aug 5 • 7pm
Alexandria Courthouse (Alexandria, MN)
with Country Roads
Aug 22 • 2pm
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (Chanhassen, MN)
with Country Roads
Aug 22 • 7pm
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (Chanhassen, MN)
with Country Roads
Natalie weaves together tradition and innovation in ways that move people across every boundary.... Her music allows room for grief and pain, and yet embedded in it is a deep and powerful hope.
[Natalie] was beyond what I could have imagined....she sounded like the music somehow rose up from the earth and she channeled it.
Extraordinary
Breathtakingly talented singer...consistently top notch.
I was impressed at Natalie's ability to work with a wide range of egos, consistently striving to be positive, and hence, elliciting the best performance possible from each as individual, and from the group as a whole (even when egos clashed!).
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