Nicholas Patrick Quigley

Nicholas Patrick Quigley (they/he) is an integrative composer, sound artist, and educator from the unceded Wôpanâak and Pokanoket land presently known as Fall River, Massachusetts. Their minimalist electro-acoustic chamber music draws on meditative improvisational practices. Exploring sound as a rewilding medium and a practice of cultivating personal sustainability, Quigley frequently walks and records soundscapes of Southern New England's nature preservations, and uses expressive sounding methods to listen inward while contributing to the sound of a space. These practices are sometimes combined using audio collage as methods of inquiry and protest. Quigley has self-released multiple albums of their chamber music, electronica, and sonic art.

Quigley conceptualizes teaching as connecting with and supporting their community and ecosystem. They serve Fall River's public high schools by teaching creative music production classes and facilitating an expressive arts club. Quigley's prior teaching experience includes middle and elementary general music in Fall River, and elementary general music, band, and chorus in Randolph, Massachusetts. To foster more diverse, creative, and inclusive musicking beyond their classroom, Quigley serves as a co-organizer of the Play On Music Festival and has published articles in the Journal of Popular Music Education, Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning, Massachusetts Music Educators Journal, and Teaching Music.

A member of the academic music honor society, Pi Kappa Lambda, Quigley has earned degrees from the University of Massachusetts Lowell (BM, Music Business, cum laude), Boston University (MM, Music Education), and Salve Regina University (CAGS, Professional Applications of the Expressive and Creative Arts).