Nick is a musician and sound artist with a prolific and varied career, having collaborated as composer, producer, arranger, session musician, sound designer, and/or engineer on hundreds of projects based in over 30 countries.

His scoring projects include the films Rasa, Sins of the Father and TAP, and the video game Derby Creek. 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 acclaimed 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, Judy Collins, 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 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.

Nick is lead composer at Ritz Studios, contract composer for Zimmer Audio, and has production music placements in libraries including 10 West and Sick Muse.

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