$10 Donation @ the Door / Start 2pm / Doors 1:30pm / Seated Show
Nicholas Brewer will be performing works by Debussy, Scriabin, Bach, and more.
Nicholas Brewer is a Boston-based musical artist. As a pianist, he gave the world premier of Francine Trester’s A Robert Lowry Reader with Leanne Estabrook, soprano. As a composer, he experiments with electroacoustic and free music. Brewer scored a 70-minute modern dance performance with electroacoustic music, performed in Portland, ME at the Portland Stage in 2015. As an educator, Brewer is a committed teaching artist and seeks to incorporate teaching moments into all his performances. He strongly believes that everyone has the capacity to become a great musician, all that is required is awareness, introspection, and exploration.
Obsessed with story and emotion, rather than canonic repertoire, Brewer prefers lesser-known works by composers such as Benjamin Britten, George Crumb, Claude Debussy, Felix Mendelssohn, Alma Mahler, Clara Schumann, Philip Glass, and Chick Corea. In Nicholas Brewer’s eyes, all music can be connected by the pursuit of atmosphere and character; he spends much of his time thinking about how to create more immersive performance environments by using these musical throughlines.
Brewer sees working with others as the most rewarding form of music making. His recent performances have included stagings of Schubert's Winterreise, movie music retrospectives, and political commentary. He has performed at/in/on the Harvard Musical Association, Regattabar in Cambridge, MA; the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music; Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music; the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY; Utica College’s Lunch Hour Series; and Wellin Hall at Hamilton College.
Brewer is also the Webmaster and Social Media manager at the Charles Ives Society, where he develops new projects at CharlesIves.org to help make information on Ives more accessible.
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