BIO

Natalia Hatzopoulou, also known as Natalia Hatz, was born on August 3, 2000, in Greece. She is an emerging composer as well as a classically trained cellist and pianist.

She began composition from a young age and has won numerous awards ever since, (#1 Winner in the Oticons Faculty International Film Music Competition 2022 among others.)

Notable collaborations include her work with director Peter Horgan in the soundtrack for short films: Chooch (2025), Ready to Die (2019) and his feature film How to Rob (2022).

She made music for animation SAFO (2026), El Salto de la Rana (2026) and video games Elysian Siege (2025)

Her concert works have been performed by youth and professional ensembles around the world: Three Dragons (2020), Forest Quartet (2021), Odyssey (2022), Iris (2025) etc.

In 2023, she graduated from the NKUA in Music Studies (Specialisation in Music Technology) with High Honors.

She received her M.M in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games from Berklee College of Music (Valencia) in 2025.

FULL CV

EXPERIENCE

EMPLOYMENT

Chooch (2025) - Music for the independent short film directed by Peter Horgan

SCREEN COMPOSER ACADEMY - Assistantship, Glyfada, Greece 2023

Odyssey (2022) - Commission for the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony CSYSA to be premiered during their 2022 Greece tour. The piece was performed in 12th of June at the Theatre of Rematia in collaboration with the Underground Youth Orchestra.

How to Rob (2022) - Music for the independent feature film directed by Peter Horgan

Ready to Die (2019) - Music for the independent short film directed by Peter Horgan

AWARDS - DISTINCTIONS

First Prize Composition Award, Aigio Music Festival 2023, for her composition Celestial Images (for oboe and piano)

Grand Prize Winner of UK International Music Competition (2022 Season 2) & First Prize Winner in Advanced Category (Age 18-22) for her orchestral composition Odyssey

Grand Prize Winner in the Oticons Faculty International Film Music Competition in 2022

TOP 10 Finalists in Oticons Faculty International Film Music Competition in 2020 and 2019.

TOP 5 Finalists in the Tenth Fidelio Piano Composition Competition 2019 ( Category 3. Minimal- Experimental- New Age ) for her original piano composition Echo

1st RUNNER UP in the Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Contest –USA (Youth Category) in 2017.

1st Prize Composition Award from X.O.N (Youth Choir & Orchestra Panhellenic Competition) for the original piano composition “Silence” in 2015.

3rd Prize Composition Award from X.O.N (Youth Choir & Orchestra Panhellenic Competition) for the original composition for piano and cello Transition in 2015.

RELEASES

Celestial Images (2024)

Performed by Stella Athanasiou (oboe) and Natalia Hatz (piano) and released by Subways Music (2024)

Natalia Hatz: Forest Quartet (2021)

Originally performed by L'Anima String Quartet and distributed by Subways Music

Chrysalis (Piano Works) (2020) A collection of her award-winning piano compositions performed by Natalia Hatz

EDUCATION

BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC,

Valencia Campus

M.M. in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games

2024-2025

NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS – GREECE

Integrated Master in Music Studies, Specialisation in Music Technology

2018 – 2023

SCREEN COMPOSER ACADEMY

Intensive Summer Program for Media Scoring

Glyfada, Greece

2021, 2022

CONSERVATORY SCHOOL

ERATEION, ATHENS GREECE

Music Theory, Cello, Piano

2012 - 2024

MUSIC SCHOOL OF PALLINI GREECE,

Apolytirion of Lyceum (High School)

High Honors

2012 – 2018

DIPLOMAS

DipABRSM Piano - Diploma
ABRSM Grade 8 Cello - Distinction
ABRSM Grade 8 Music Theory

Conservatory Diploma for Cello - Distinction
Conservatory Degree for Piano - Distinction
Conservatory Degree for Harmony - Distinction

PERFORMANCES

Member of the Underground Youth Orchestra in Athens, as a cellist from 2015-2024

Participated in collaboratory concerts of the Julius Stern Berlin Orchestra and the Underground Youth Orchestra in Athens and Berlin in 2018 & 2019

Has participated in El Sistema Greece, International Youth Orchestra and performed at the Odeon of Herodes in Athens 2017.

Composed and performed original pieces of music for piano and orchestra at the French Institute of Athens in 2017.

Has conducted and arranged pieces for choir and orchestra, performed by the Symphonic Orchestra of the Music School of Pallini in 2016-2018.