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About Me:
Nick Revel is a Multi-GRAMMY™ Nominated violist, composer, engineer, and educator based in Queens, NY. As founding violist of PUBLIQuartet, he has toured internationally performing and premiering original and improvised new music on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in Carnegie Hall, New York City Ballet, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, and String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam. Their recent GRAMMY™ Nominated album, What Is American (2022, Bright Shiny Things) topped the Billboard Classical charts on release and has been streamed over one million times. They collaborate regularly with Hiromi and have performed in the Montreal Jazz, L.A. Jazz, and Gilmore Piano Festivals. PUBLIQuartet was named Artist-in-Residence at Carnegie Hall PlayUSA's 2021-2022 convening, creating improvisation and story-telling tools for thousands of students across dozens of US educational institutions.
As an award winning composer, Nick has produced two full length albums of original electro-acoustic works for viola: Letters to My Future Self (2018, Centaur Records) and DREAM COLLIDER (2022 Sapphire Records), with tracks earning placements on top podcasts like Doug Fearn's My Take on Music Recording. His recent composition awards include Catalyst Quartet's blind CQ Minute call for scores, fivebyfive ensemble's 2020 call for original scores, the Red Jasper Award Shortlist, and finalist in the Golden Hornet Smackdown IV string quartet competition.
As an audio engineer and recording artist, Nick has produced and engineered chamber orchestras, chamber ensembles, soloists, and choirs across the country with credits on GRAMMY™ Nominated albums Of Power (2021, Bright Shiny Things) and What Is American (2022, Bright Shiny Things). He's a featured violist on over 35 albums, and commercial and film soundtracks, many of which were recorded remotely at his home studio during the pandemic for artists in France, Azerbaijan, Italy, and North America, and were featured in the No Longer Suitable for Use (2021) short film, and the All That Breathes (2023) documentary trailer.
As an educator and author, Nick has sold nearly 500 copies of his method book DragonScales 3-Octave Scales and Arpeggios (2023, Amazon KDP). He is immensely excited about the release of his latest and greatest project DragonScales: The Hero Levels, 25 Fantasy Etudes to Slay Evil. He lives with his wife, violist and educator Nora Krohn, and they desperately want to get a cute doggo but are on the fence about the time commitment.