Nicholas FELDER: Sing With Me
Performers: Nicholas Felder, voice and Matt Albert, violin
Sing With Me (2023)
Instrumentation: vocalist (any range) and violin
Duration: 10:00
Program note:
Sing With Me is a prayer and meditation. A journal entry. A call to action. It asks for a simple duet with a friend while also urging a need for community when advocating for people’s rights and wellbeing as well as your own.
This piece encapsulates a love that is contemplative and vulnerable. Bittersweet and peaceful. A love that is warm and fierce and weary and hopeful. The music illustrates love as a process—something that seems elusive at times but then may return when we ask for it.
About Nicholas Felder
Having a passion for community engagement and working with youth, Nicholas Felder creates art that inspires relational bonds between people in a given space. He builds community in artmaking, unlocking truths around self-identity, and creating a space for embodied expression. Nicholas has led arts programs and workshops with El Sistema Colorado, Neutral Zone (Ann Arbor, MI), the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and American Composers Orchestra. He loves to encourage teens to express their social and political views through artmaking.
An active composer and collaborator, Nicholas has had his works performed nationally by ensembles, such as the Hawaii Youth Symphony, Mivos Quartet, Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra, DC Youth Orchestra Program, and University of Michigan Converge Quartet.
Nicholas has earned degrees from the University of Michigan and Kennesaw State University and is currently earning his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in Music Composition at the University of Colorado Boulder.
For more on Nicholas, find him at www.nicholasfelder.com.
