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Erik Nielsen
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Erik Nielsen has created works for chorus, orchestra, wind ensemble, solo instruments, chamber music,
works for dance, film and electronic music. His pieces have been performed all over the world by
various ensembles. He has won awards from ASCAP, the National Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Arts
Council, the Vermont Community Foundation and the Vermont Music Teachers Association. In
September 2015, his opera, A Fleeting Animal, a collaboration with poet/playwright David Budbill and
premiered in 2000, was performed in a newly revised edition to great acclaim in six locations in
Vermont. Recent commissions include a film score for the 2019 Green Mountain Film Festival; a new
work for chorus and brass or organ, All This Night Shrill Chanticleer, a commission from the Vermont
professional chorus Counterpoint, premiered in December, 2018; a new work for the Northern Third
Quartet, premiered in October, 2018. He was elected a Fellow by the Vermont Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 2016. He lives in Brookfield, Vermont.​

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    • Composition, Theory & Songwriting
    • Piano
    • String
    • Voice
    • Woodwinds and Brass
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    • Private Instruction
    • Group Classes & Workshops
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    • Student Recitals
    • Faculty Recital
    • Calendar
    • Aliceheimer's Opera
  • About
    • Staff and Board
    • Mission & History
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