Improbable Beasts is a Boston-based professional bass clarinet ensemble dedicated to bringing the deeply expressive power of multiple bass clarinets before a broad audience. Our repertoire ranges from Renaissance choral music to brand-new compositions to klezmer tunes and holiday songs. Our mission is to share the deep resonances, soaring lyricism, and propulsive grooves of bass clarinet ensemble music with as many people as we can. The members of Improbable Beasts are some of the most sought-after clarinetists in the Boston area, regularly appearing with groups such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and numerous regional orchestras, new music groups, and chamber ensembles.
Clarinetist Nat Seelen is the founder and artistic director of the Boston Festival of New Jewish Music and clarinetist with Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band. Nat performs regularly with The Klezmer Conservatory Band, The Late Risers, and as a freelancer around New England. Awards include the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship, 2021 CJP Arts and Culture Fund grant, first prize in the 2020 Kleztival Bubbe Awards for Best Original Klezmer Tune, and first prize in the 2015 Klezmer Company Orchestra Composition Competition.
