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Nicholas Landrum (he/him) creates beautiful music for complicated people. He is a classical post-minimalist composer, bass-baritone vocalist, electronic producer, multi-instrumental performer, and educator born in Philadelphia, and currently residing in Minneapolis. Nicholas has an affinity for the extremes. Inspired by dualities, finding solace in both science and religion, the organic and the unnatural, absolute art and intense narrative works. Nicholas has always been an extrovert, in love with the art of communication, with a deep need for human connection through art and everyday life. Much of his work focuses on influences from the profound, the use of generative mathematics, analog synthesis, and his first love, the human voice.

As a perpetually curious human and student of history, Nicholas’s intense study of the Western Classical Cannon was born out of curiosity and proximity to a local record store (Princeton Record Exchange) with very cheap bargain bin CDs during his undergraduate education, where he first fostered his obsession with craft and technique. Having been born into an Italian-American household of tradespeople, his family always valued craft and simplicity, both are tenants of Landrum’s compositional practice.

Nicholas's works have been commissioned, performed, and licensed by the Minnesota Orchestra, The Choir of The Basilica of the National Shirne in Washington, The Sacred Music Project, loadbang, North Coast Winds, Wintergreen Music Festival, and the historic Tenth and First Presbyterian Churches of Philadelphia. Nicholas’s compositions have won numerous awards, including the Dean’s Prize in composition from Indiana University, the Kuttner String Quartet Competition, the Ruth and Raymond Young Award for New Music, recognition by the Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, as well as fellowships with MusicaNova Orchestra, and the Red Note Music festival.

Nicholas holds degrees in composition, theory, and electronic music from Indiana University (DM), Cleveland Institute of Music (MM), and Westminster Choir College (BM). He has served on the faculty of the University of Akron, Cleveland Institute of Music’s Young Composer Program, and he currently maintains a private composition studio in Minneapolis. In his short time as an educator, his students have been accepted to top composition programs across the country, and have won awards from BMI, Downbeat Magazine, and ASCAP.

As a classical vocalist, Nicholas has been active as a bass-baritone soloist and chorister for over eighteen years. He has premiered countless works by young composers, and performed as a professional chorister with the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Staatskapelle Dresden, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and New Jersey Symphony, under the baton of world-class conductors including Pierre Boulez, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, David Robertson, and Michael Tilson Thomas. 

In additiont to his compsositional career, Nicholas performs across both classical and pop worlds and contributes regularly to the Minnesota Orchestra’s Pre-Concert Talk series, while also writing program notes for many of America’s leading ensembles, including the Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Minnesota Orchestras. Nicholas currently serves as the Director of Music and Liturgy at The Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis, MN.

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Nicholas Landrum (he/him) creates beautiful music for complicated people. He is a classical post-minimalist composer, bass-baritone vocalist, electronic producer, multi-instrumental performer, and educator born in Philadelphia, and currently residing in Minneapolis. Nicholas has an affinity for the extremes. Inspired by dualities, finding solace in both science and religion, the organic and the unnatural, absolute art and intense narrative works. Nicholas has always been an extrovert, in love with the art of communication, with a deep need for human connection through art and everyday life. Much of his work focuses on influences from the profound, the use of generative mathematics, analog synthesis, and his first love, the human voice.

Nicholas's works have been commissioned, performed, and licensed by the Minnesota Orchestra, The Choir of The Basilica of the National Shirne in Washington, The Sacred Music Project, loadbang, North Coast Winds, Wintergreen Music Festival, and historic Tenth and First Presbyterian Churches of Philadelphia. Nicholas’s compositions have won numerous awards, including the Dean’s Prize in composition from Indiana University, the Kuttner String Quartet Competition, the Ruth and Raymond Young Award for New Music, recognition by the Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, as well as fellowships with MusicaNova Orchestra, and the Red Note Music festival.

Nicholas holds degrees in composition, theory, and electronic music from Indiana University (DM), Cleveland Institute of Music (MM), and Westminster Choir College (BM). He has served on the faculty of the University of Akron, Cleveland Institute of Music’s Young Composer Program, and he currently maintains a private composition studio in Minneapolis. In his short time as an educator, his students have been accepted to top composition programs across the country, and have won awards from BMI, Downbeat Magazine, and ASCAP.

In additiont to his compsositional career, Nicholas performs across both classical and pop worlds and contributes regularly to the Minnesota Orchestra’s Pre-Concert Talk series, while also writing program notes for many of America’s leading ensembles, including the Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Minnesota Orchestras. Nicholas currently serves as the Director of Music and Liturgy at The Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis, MN.

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Nicholas Landrum (he/him) creates beautiful music for complicated people. He is a classical post-minimalist composer, bass-baritone vocalist, electronic producer, multi-instrumental performer, and educator born in Philadelphia, and currently residing in Minneapolis. Nicholas has an affinity for the extremes. Inspired by dualities, finding solace in both science and religion, the organic and the unnatural, absolute art and intense narrative works. Nicholas has always been an extrovert, in love with the art of communication, with a deep need for human connection through art and everyday life. Much of his work focuses on influences from the profound, the use of generative mathematics, analog synthesis, and his first love, the human voice.

In additiont to his compsositional career, Nicholas performs across both classical and pop worlds and contributes regularly to the Minnesota Orchestra’s Pre-Concert Talk series, while also writing program notes for many of America’s leading ensembles, including the Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Minnesota Orchestras. Nicholas currently serves as the Director of Music and Liturgy at The Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis, MN.

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Nicholas Landrum (he/him) creates beautiful music for complicated people. He is a classical post-minimalist composer, bass-baritone vocalist, electronic producer, multi-instrumental performer, and educator born in Philadelphia, and currently residing in Minneapolis. Nicholas has an affinity for the extremes. Inspired by dualities, finding solace in both science and religion, the organic and the unnatural, absolute art and intense narrative works. Nicholas has always been an extrovert, in love with the art of communication, with a deep need for human connection through art and everyday life. Much of his work focuses on influences from the profound, the use of generative mathematics, analog synthesis, and his first love, the human voice. In additiont to his compsositional career, Nicholas performs across both classical and pop worlds and contributes regularly to the Minnesota Orchestra’s Pre-Concert Talk series, while also writing program notes for many of America’s leading ensembles, including the Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Minnesota Orchestras.

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Nicholas Landrum (he/him) creates beautiful music for complicated people. A composer, vocalist, producer, multi-instrumentalist, author, and educator born in Philadelphia, he currently lives in Minneapolis, where he serves as Director of Music and Liturgy at The Church of the Annunciation. He performs across both classical and pop worlds and contributes regularly to the Minnesota Orchestra’s Pre-Concert Talk series, while also writing program notes for many of America’s leading ensembles, including the Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Minnesota Orchestras.