rick nichols
musician-producer-teacher
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An award winning musician, producer and teacher, Rick Nichols has built his life around uplifting people through music and sound. Described as “Peter Gabriel meets Joseph Campbell”, Rick entwines his world-music-making, writing and teaching with his passion for showcasing people’s creative talents, offering an approach to performance and education that is both inspiring and empowering. From live performances, to interactive classes & workshops, Nichols has been sharing his music and life-work for more than three decades — in schools, theaters, concert halls, sound studios, clubs, yoga centers, parks, subways, and roof-tops — to empower and inspire people to live their truth.
With over 35 years in music production and education, teaching college and high school students, directing recording & production workshops for adults & children, producing albums, soundtracks & multimedia mythic-theater projects, building recording studios, and performing original material both solo and with his band, Nichols’ work reflects a consistent commitment to inspiring and connecting people for increased levels of personal expression and creative impact. Rick has recorded and produced hundreds of musicians from around the world in all styles of music for demos, record releases, radio shows, and soundtracks, while developing inspirational programs that promote personal growth and creative collaboration.
Rick’s latest project SYNCOPIA, is an innovative world-music program offered in a number of formats, using live performance, improvisation and interactive participation to take participators to a new level of confidence and creative impact, as important creators who can make a positive difference in the world.
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Background
Originally from the sea-side village of Padanarum, Massachusetts, now based between New York City, Nichols has been a musician, producer and inspiration to young and old for over 30 years. After graduating from Harvard College in 1986, Rick pursued a short career in architecture before shifting his focus back to music. Writing and producing since 1977, Nichols has performed in clubs and venues throughout the Northeast and abroad, and to date has released five albums of original self-produced material. In 1989, Nichols built several recording studios and began producing other musicians and artists in Boston, and later in New York City. He’s created artist networking groups, music recording workshops, and a music theater program for children which enabled them to record and produce their own CDs. Nichols has taught sound and music production in Boston at Emerson College and Massachusetts Communication College, and in New York at The Institute of Audio Research, SAE School of Music Production, and New York University.
Poetic
Rick Nichols is a world-musician, producer, writer, poet & teacher who’s been in love with making music his whole life, and whose personal journey to help people overcome their fears and sing their truth has fueled his passion for sharing the creative aliveness that’s open to everyone who chooses it. Rick’s music and life-journey has been about inclusion and empowerment – incorporating and integrating a diversity of people, players and sound-makers into the music-making game — both to expand our musical world ever-wider, and to empower the path of those who participate in that world.
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