Nick Grondin
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliated Departments
Telephone
617-747-6434
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Career Highlights
- Sings and plays guitar, lap steel, bass, piano, drums, harmonica, and mandolin
- Leader of Nick Grondin Group and Nick Grondin Jazz Orchestra
- Member of Public Domain and Jazz Composers' Collective Quintet
- Has performed with Joshua Redman, Bob Moses, and Il Divo at the Panama Jazz Festival
- Recordings inculde SongTeller by The Jazz Orchestra Project (2009)
- Teaching Fellow in Jazz Harmony and Jazz Improvisation at Harvard University
- BMI Jazz Composers’ Workshop (2009-2011) with Jim McNeely and Mike Holober
Awards
- DownBeat Student Music Awards for Best Extended Jazz Composition and Arrangement (2007, 2008)
- Received three ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards (2008, 2009, 2011)
Education
- M.M., New England Conservatory, jazz studies: composition (2008)
- B.A., Macalester College, music, minor in French, summa cum laude (2005)
- Studied at the CIM and EDIM Schools of Modern Music, Paris, France
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