Born in Saskatchewan, Nathan Berg studied in his native Canada, the United States, Paris, and at the Guildhall School of Music in London where he won the Gold Medal for Singers. Early in his career he established his name as an outstanding interpreter of baroque and pre-classical music, both in concert and opera. To this he soon added multiple Mozart operatic rôles with performances around the globe.

He has continued with dramatic repertoire including the title rôle in Der fliegende Holländer in his Bolshoi Theatre début, Alberich (Das Rheingold) with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and Doktor (Wozzeck) with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony.