As the violist and founding member of PUBLIQuartet, 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 attended the Robert Mann Institute and the Juilliard Quartet Seminar as well as 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.

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.

12-24-11 – Performs the 4th movement of Robert Schumann’s “Fairy Tales” at the Christmas service for St. Paul’s on the Green in Norwalk, CT.

12-22-11 – PUBLIQuartet performs Lost in Kino, CD Release party with Ljova at the Lincoln Center Atrium.

12-20-11 – PUBLIQuartet performs new music showcase concert in LeFrak Hall at Queens College. World premiers by Richard Boukas, Han Man Woong, Sunny Knable, Daniel Fine, Maria Mykolenko, and Jeremy Barbaro.

12-17-11 – Performs as principal violist of Norwalk Symphony Orchestra

11-20-11 – PUBLIQuartet performs at Ridotto concert series in Huntington, NY. Curated by Margaretha Maimone. Quartet Works by Joaquim Turina and a solo viola by Enrique Granados.

11-15-11 – Celebrates my birthday

11-12-11 – Performs as a sub with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at the Miller Theater at Columbia. Performing works by George Lewis

10-23-11 – PUBLIQuartet performs Circles and Lines composer’s competition concert at the Vaudeville Park, Bk. Curated by Erik Lemmon. Performed works by Elias, Constantopedos, Dylan Glatthorn, Josh Green, Ryan Homsey, Noam Faingold, Angelica Negron, and Erik Lemmon

10-10-11 – PUBLIQuartet performs MIND THE GAP at Cornelia Street Cafe including a world premier of my string quartet, “Level 1″. This concert bridges written music with improvisation using the written music as source material for the improv.

9-25-11 – Performs W4 End of Summer Concert at Exapno in BK. World premiers by NYU composers, Tim Hanson, Ruben Naeff, Dosia McKay, Molly Heron, and Chris Chappell

9-16-11 – Performs with singer songwriter, Ben Shelton at the Brooklyn, Lyceum.