Classical and New Classical Contributor
Nicholas S. Omiccioli is currently a doctoral student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he is a Preparing Future Faculty Fellow. He currently studies composition with James Mobberley, Chen Yi, Paul Rudy, and Zhou Long. His previous teacher was Brian Bevelander at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio. His music has been performed by the Wellesley Composers' Conference, DuoSolo, the Kansas City Chorale, Contemporaneous, the Society for New Music, members of Brave New Works, and various new music festivals around the country including Regional and National College Music Society Conferences and numerous SCI Conferences at the National, National Student, and Regional levels.
Mr. Omiccioli has received many awards and honors including a commission by the 2010 Wellesley Composers' Conference, winner and judge's choice in the 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 UMKC Chamber Music Composition Competitions, 2009 DuoSolo Emerging Composer Award, and the Brian M. Israel Prize to name a few. Just recently, Mr. Omiccioli was nominated for an award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a winner of the ASCAP Foundation's 2010 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. In addition to composition, Mr. Omiccioli studies guitar with Douglas Niedt and teaches at the UMKC Academy of Music and Dance and the Kansas City School of Music.