Nicholas S. Omiccioli (b. 1982) is currently a preparing future faculty fellow at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and production coordinator of newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. His works have been performed throughout the United States, Italy, Thailand, and China by the Jasper String Quartet, Indaco Quartet, Society for New Music in Syracuse, ConTempo Beijing, DuoSolo, Brave New Works, Contemporaneous, Puget Sound Piano Trio, newEar Contemporary Ensemble, Wild Rumpus New Music Collective, Simon Carrington Chamber Singers, and the Kansas City Chorale, among others. His current projects include a chamber work commissioned by the l’Orchestre de la francophonie for the National Arts Centre Summer Music Institute in Ottawa, Canada.
Mr. Omiccioli has been commissioned by the Wellesley Composers Conference, Shouse Institute at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and Missouri National Teachers Association. Recent honors include two nominations for awards by the American Academy of Arts & Letters, an ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Beijing Modern Music Festival Young Composer Award, first place in the Thailand Internation Composition Festival Award, DuoSolo Emerging Composer Award, Brian M. Israel Prize, and multiple awards through the College Music Society. Mr. Omiccioli has studied composition with James Mobberley, Chen Yi, Paul Rudy, Zhou Long, João Pedro Oliveira, and Brian Bevelander. He holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Heidelberg University.
