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Artist
Nick Norton
12+ albums
Classicalexperimentalcomposerguitarcontemporary classical
about
Nick Norton is a composer, guitarist, writer, and all around go-to guy for music from Southern California. He was born roughly 13.6 billion years after the universe and at least a few hundred thousand after vertebrates evolved a system to interpret vibrating air as sound. Nick, like many others, discovered that he got a seriously life-affirming kick out of certain arrangements of sound, so started making some of his own at an early age by playing saxophone and guitar. He studied composition (the art and craft of writing directions for making air vibrate) in college at UC San Diego, then at L’ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, then in graduate school at King’s College, London and UC Santa Barbara – and in a whole bunch of garages, studios, apartments, backyards, beaches, mountains, bars, libraries, clubs, restaurants, and deserts. He’s been really lucky, because he’s had great teachers along the way, including Clarence Barlow, Joel Feigin, Lei Liang, Robert Keeley, Rand Steiger, Chinary Ung, Harvey Sollberger, and Michel Merlet. He’s been relatively successful so far too. Nick has received awards and commissions from Now Hear Ensemble, L’ensemble Portmantô (who also gave him a lifetime appointment as composer-in-residence), the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, Worldwide Guitar Connections, WomenSing, the London Contemporary Chamber Orchestra, the Dartington International Summer Festival, UC San Diego, and others. His music has been performed by What’s Next
