An accomplished and well-recognised musician, he is an organist, a cornettist, and a countertenor, as well as the author of several compositions. He also has a special relationship with architecture thanks to his participation in the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris as a stonemason, his research into Renaissance architecture, his commitment to the restoration of the Notre Dame de Recouvrance Church in Orléans, and his project to rebuild a 15 th -century house.
He has performed and recorded with prestigious ensembles such as Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse, La Rêveuse, Perspectives, La Fenice, the Chœur des compagnons de Notre-Dame de Paris, the Chœur de l’Opéra Royal de Versailles, the Consort Musica Vera, Les Folies Françoises.
The dedicatee of works for cornet and organ by Francis Chapelet and Gabriel Marghieri, he performs as duo partner with internationally renowned musicians such as organists Thibault Fajoles, Michaël Matthes, François-Henri Houbart, Pierre Chépélov, Anton Holmer, and has given organ recitals in the cathedrals of Tours, Troyes, Angers, Stuttgart, Saint-Flour, Auch, as well as in the Parisian churches of Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingt and Saint-Eustache, the abbey churches of Ochsenhausen and Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye, the church of Notre-Dame du Taur in Toulouse.
A finalist of the Angers International Organ Competition, Nathan Degrange Roncier graduated in the organ classes of Eric Lebrun at the Regional Conservatory of Saint-Maur- des-Fossés and Jürgen Essl at the University of Music in Stuttgart. He studied singing with Anne Delafosse, techniques of composition with Pierre Pincemaille and conducting with Denis Rouger. After studying the cornett with Serge Delmas at the Regional Conservatory of Paris, he obtained a Master’s degree from the National Conservatory of Music in Lyons in the classes of Jean Tubéry and Jean-Pierre Canihac.
While living in Germany, he worked as a Kantor (organist and choirmaster). Upon his return in France, he taught at the Conservatoire Départemental de Valence, as well as at that of Montélimar, before being appointed to his current position at the Conservatoire du 9e arrondissement de Paris.
He is the author of a scholarly dissertation entitled “Intermediate Civil Architecture From the End of the 15 th Century To the 16 th century: Rural Or Sparsely Urbanised Dwellings In the Loiret”, and he graduated from the Lycée Hector Guimard in Paris as a Stonemason for the French National Historical Monuments. He was then recruited by the prestigious Lefevre Company for the restoration of famous historical monuments.