Nick is a composer of music for film, games, records, and concert stages, and a sound designer and engineer for both visual and audio media. His current award-winning scoring projects include the films Rasa, Sins of the Father and TAP. His session recording can be heard on Richard Linklater's Hit Man and Austin Wintory's score to the video game Eternal Strands. Recent production credits include collaborations with Scrim and Lara Downes.

As a performing musician, bandleader, and sideman, Nick has been featured on a number of NPR Tiny Desk Concerts, and has shared the stage with a range of artists including Aretha Franklin and Sigur Rós. His studio work can be heard on albums by Whiskey Myers, Blk Odyssy, Taking Back Sunday, and many more. Ensembles such as Austin Unconducted, Inversion Ensemble, Density 512, and the Valley Symphony have performed Nick's compositions live.

Nick has collaborated as producer, composer, arranger, session musician, sound designer, and/or engineer on hundreds of projects with artists from over 30 countries. In addition to his independent work, Nick works as a contract composer for companies such as Zimmer Audio, and has contributed to music libraries including 10 West Music.

Nick is a founding member of Invoke, a folk-infused quartet whose repertoire features original compositions by the group and works by exciting young American composers. Invoke has won awards at the Concert Artists Guild competition, M-Prize and Coltman competitions, and the Savvy Musician in ACTION competition, and was selected as Young Professional String Quartet in Residence at the University of Texas.

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