Nick Revel received his Bachelor’s of Music in viola performance from the Eastman School of music in 2008 where he studied with John Graham. Since then he has built up his career in NYC by performing as a soloist, chamber musician, improviser, and orchestral violist, as well as composing, and teaching. Nick Revel has made appearances performing on stages in Berlin Germany, Tokyo Japan, in the Rochester International Jazz Festival, and in concerts all over NYC.
As the violist and founding member of the PUBLIQuartet String Quartet, Nick Revel strives to inject fresh perspective into the classical music scene through creative and interactive programming. PUBLIQuartet showcases works by NYC based composers such as Klezmer master Don Byron and award winning jazz composer Erica Seguine in venues ranging from the Cornelia Street Café in the bustling West Village to WMP concert hall in the Flatiron district. This past season PUBLIQuartet coached with the Juilliard Quartet at the Juilliard Quartet Seminar as well as Joan Tower and the Muir Quartet as quartet-in-residence at the Deer Valley Contemporary Music Festival in Utah. Nick Revel has given solo recitals in the Mid-day Music Series in Norwalk, CT and the Afternoon Music Series in Williamstown, MA.
In addition to performing, Nick Revel has a budding career as a composer. He has been commissioned to write Broken Lines, a viola quartet, for the New York Viola Society, and choral works for a production of Medea with the Xoregos Performing Company. His music has been featured in concerts with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra and with PUBLIQuartet as well as the Silver Bay Concert Series in Silver Bay, NY. Nick is scheduled to perform Energy, his original duet for violin and viola, with the Composer’s Voice Concert Series in September 2011.
A passionate teacher, Nick Revel has been teaching chamber music and private lessons since 2008. In Norwalk Nick directs and coaches the Norwalk Youth Symphony Chamber Music program as well as a private studio of talented young violists. He has coached string quartets in Stamford, CT’s very own Chamber Music Institute for Young Musicians three years in a row and has performed and presented improvisation workshops with in public schools in NY and CT.
An Ambitious orchestra musician, Nick Revel is the principal violist of the Glens Falls Symphony and assistant principal violist of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra. He also plays regularly with the Allentown Symphony and has appeared with the Binghamton Philharmonic as well as the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
In addition to the many facets of Nick Revel’s career he can be spotted performing in the wedding scene of the movie Sex and the City 2.