Nicole Chamberlain

So happy I got another opportunity to collaborate with Cassandra Eisenreich and Slippery Rock University Flute Ensemble!

We are THRILLED to announce that the wonderful has written NEW MUSIC for the 2025 Slippery Rock University Honors Flute Ensemble!

Would YOU like to be a part of the premiere?! Submit your audition materials TODAY!

Check out the application here:
https://sru.irisregistration.com/Site/2025honorsflute

Bio:
Composer and flutist Nicole Chamberlain (b. 1977) has a varied career in the arts, acquiring simultaneous bachelor degrees in Music Composition and Digital Media at the University of Georgia. Her original compositions are influenced by storytelling and visual imagery from her former day job as a web animator and designer. Chamberlain’s music “heavily utilizes extended techniques [that] play into the theme or story of each piece to sonically enhance its meaning” (The Flute View). “Being a virtuoso flautist herself has informed her ability to write for the instrument with thrilling facility and endearing charm.” (Gramophone Magazine). As a Powell Flutes Artist, Chamberlain has been enabled in this endeavor to perform her music to a wide audience and wouldn’t trade in her Powell Conservatory 9K Aurumite Flute and a Powell Handmade Custom Grenadilla Piccolo for the world.
Currently, Chamberlain balances her time composing, teaching students, performing, and avoiding graphic design work as much as possible. She lives in Doraville with her husband, guitarist and composer Brian Chamberlain. The Chamberlains have their own independent music publishing company, Spotted Rocket Publishing (www.spottedrocket.com), and pitbull, Gerty, who longs to be a social media influencer. You can typically catch Chamberlain on any of the many social media platforms where she spends an abhorrent amount of time. For more information visit her website at www.nikkinotes.com.

All application and audition materials are due by Saturday, January 10, 2025. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions.

Chuckaboo!

Here we are right now! At the Flute Fair.
We are playing all music by women composers today.

We just played Duo by Claude Arrieu - pen name for French composer Louise-Marie Simon and Sonatina by Shulamit Ran

Later today in the newly commissioned works recital we'll be playing Distant Landscapes by and Chuckaboo by 🎶🎶

I had a final rehearsal today in Atlanta for another premiere and had to miss this premiere in Pennsylvania! So happy technology let me be there in spirit, thanks for commissioning "The Lowdown" for low flute choir, Chris Potter! You can hear it here:

Nativity Cathedral presents: Low Flutes Concert Sunday, October 20th, 4:00 PM in Sayre Hall. This is a FREE event, all are welcome! Pieces to be performed include a Concerto by G.F. Handel, Bolero by Mauri...

TODAY (10/20) at 4pm eastern you can catch a livestream of the premiere of my comp "The Lowdown" for low flutes choir directed and commissioned by Chris Potter !

Nativity Cathedral presents: Low Flutes Concert Sunday, October 20th, 4:00 PM in Sayre Hall. This is a FREE event, all are welcome! Pieces to be performed include a Concerto by G.F. Handel, Bolero by Mauri...

Thanks to flutist Nicole Riner and pianist Jiwon Han for giving this stunning performance of my comp "Three-Nine Line" - a piece of mine that rarely gets performed. I wish I could have been there in person but I will settle for this stream and the hug I got from Nicole R at the FNMC New Music festival last week :)

Faculty Recital Series: "American Sounds," featuring Nicole Riner, flute, and Jiwon Han, piano The University of Wyoming Department of Music Faculty Recital Series presents Dr. Nicole Riner, flute, and Dr. Jiwon Han, piano, Wednesday, October 16, 7:30 ...

Every once in a while, I have to talk about copyright and publishing. So I made a little page with resources to help save me (and hopefully you) time:

Copyright New Music — Spotted Rocket Publishing Self Publishing:https://www.johnmackey.com/blog/music-publishing/8 Basic Facts:https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/8-basic-facts-every-musician-should-know-about-copyright-lawASCAP (Music PRO):https://www.ascap.com/BMI (Music PRO):https://www.bmi.com/ArrangeMe (A publisher with many permissions/licen...

NEW RELEASE! "Chuckaboo" for alto flute and bass flute duo premiered at the International Low Flutes Festival in DC last month. I've gotten plenty of requests to compose more for low flutes. So here's one :) You can check it out below:

Chuckaboo (PDF) for alto flute and bass flute by Nicole Chamberlain — Spotted Rocket Publishing Chuckaboo was composed for its premiere performance at the 2024 International Low Flutes Festival in Herndon, Virginia and performed by Nicole Chamberlain on alto flute with Dr. Mary Matthews on bass flute. Chuckaboo is 19th century slang for a dear and close friend. It seemed a fitting title to ce

I'm leaving tomorrow (4/23) to go to The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences where I am a Creative Residency Fellow! I hope to get a ton of focused composing time while I'm there - thanks to the lack of internet and cell service in my studio. So obviously, I will be super slow returning messages. I might be able to post a photo or two while I'm there, but we'll see how it goes. I'll be back May 13!

Me: *Listens to bassoon demo*
Bassoonist: Here's what helicopter tongue sounds like - *(in helicopter) doo doo doo doo doo doo*
Me: Awesome!
Bassoonist: Here's what key clicks sound like - *silence*
Me: lolololololololol

Thanks for having Mary Matthews and I on the Talking Flutes podcast!

Here's the link where we talk to Jean-Paul Wright about our latest book "Into the Beyond"

Into The Beyond! E: 303 with Dr Mary Matthews & Nicole Chamberlain Spicing up your relationship with the flute! Extended techniques expand the palette of flute learning and playing. "The benefits of using extended techniques to improve your flute playing This week on 'Talking Flutes' Jean-Paul speaks with Dr Mary Matthews and Nicole Chamberlain about their latest p...

I’ve been awarded a Creative Residency Fellowship at the Hambidge Center For Creative Arts & Sciences!