Choral conductor and musicologist Nathaniel G. Lew is Artistic Director of the Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble, based in Montpelier, and Assistant Conductor/Chorus Master at Opera Company of Middlebury. Before coming to Vermont, during a decade spent in the Bay Area, he directed Ars Subtilior Medieval Vocal Ensemble, Vox Populi Renaissance Vocal Ensemble, the UC Berkeley Chorus, the Chorus of Festival Opera of Walnut Creek, and the Choir of Montclair Presbyterian Church in Oakland, and sang with the Philharmonia Chorale and Volti. Raised in New York, he studied at the Juilliard School, Yale University, and the University of Cambridge, and received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has edited and adapted several scores by Ralph Vaughan Williams for publication, and in 2016 published the book Tonic to the Nation: Making English Music in the Festival of Britain. He is a member of the board of Choral Arts New England.