Nicholas Patrick Quigley (they/he/we) is an educator and musician specializing in creative music education. With experience teaching all levels in alternative and traditional public schools, they have transformed the programs they have served by establishing modern bands, accessible general music curricula, and trauma-responsive musicking groups. They now teach music production, rap and hip-hop, and contemporary band at Durfee High School and Resiliency Preparatory Academy of Fall River, Massachusetts. Beyond their classrooms, Quigley is a seasonal Boston University course facilitator and Play On Music Festival co-organizer. 

As a composer, Quigley started writing songs in high school and exploring meditative improvisation early in university. Their discography now spans a diverse array of acoustic, electroacoustic, electronic, generative, soundscape, ambient, and contemporary alternative musics. Inspired by integrative approaches, Quigley has studied in creative workshops with Brian Eno, Laraaji, Meredith  Monk, and the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer. With a particular interest in composing to develop ecological consciousness, Quigley has completed an Advanced Training Certificate in Ecopsychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute. Their body of work includes themes of climate change and terrapsychology, neurodiversity, contemporary global political issues, and the worlds of dreams.

Quigley has presented at regional and international conferences and published in the Journal of Popular Music Education, Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning, and Teaching Music, among others. A member of the academic music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda, they are a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Lowell (BM, cum laude, Music Business), Boston University (MM, Music Education), and Salve Regina University (CAGS, Professional Applications of the Expressive and Creative Arts).

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