Christopher Nichols, clarinet

🇺🇸 USA

Critically acclaimed clarinetist Christopher Nichols enjoys a dynamic career with performances across the United States and in Italy, Costa Rica, Belgium, Malta, Canada, and the Netherlands. A native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Nichols studied clarinet performance at the Boston Conservatory (BM), Kansas State University (MM), and the University of Kansas (DMA). He joined the faculty of the University of Delaware School of Music in 2013 where he is Associate Professor of Clarinet.

Nichols regularly performs with orchestras throughout the Mid-Atlantic and is a member of Christiana Winds. He has recently collaborated with the acclaimed Serafin Ensemble, the Copeland Quartet, as well as members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He has served for over a decade in Army Bands and is currently the first sergeant of the 287th Army Band in Wilmington, Delaware.

Additionally, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and public radio in Kansas, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York and Michigan, have broadcast his recordings. In 2015, the Delaware Division of the Arts awarded him an Established Artist Fellowship recognizing his work as a solo recitalist. He has released solo and chamber music recordings on internationally distributed labels including Navona Records, Viduus Records and Albany Records, which have won praise in publications such as Gramophone, Fanfare, NACWPI Journal, De Klarinet, and Pizzicato.