Nicholas Lindell studied both violin and viola under Michael Heald and Maggie Snyder at the University of Georgia and is presently a DMA candidate at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University under Ivo-Jan van der Werff. He regularly plays with Houston’s Symphony, Grand Opera, and Ballet orchestras. The AVS invited him as an Emerging Lecturer for the society’s 2024 Festival in Los Angeles.
Nicholas is also quite passionate about jazz and folk music, and he loves composing, arranging, and performing cross-genre styles. He researches Celtic, bluegrass, and Scandinavian fiddle traditions and has recorded with several bands. He also studied classified cryptographic problems for the NSA and earned a graduate degree in mathematics with a thesis on mathematical music theory. When not playing his instruments or teaching music theory, Nicholas loves bicycling, frisbee, soccer, and tennis.