Nicholas James Sasse (B. 2001) is an American composer and clarinetist. Nick has been playing piano since the age of 9, clarinet since he was 10, and composing music since the age of 12. He has studied musical composition at a collegiate level since 2020 under the direction of Dr. Martin Kennedy and later under Dr. Jiyoun Chung. Nick has also participated in and won numerous composers competitions including the Trudie Woll Memorial Composition Competition, been a finalist in other competitions such as the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, and has been a composition fellow for the Alba Music Festival. Nick’s music has been performed both nationally, and internationally.
 Nick considers himself a composer whose goal is to make instrumental music accessible to the common listener. He strongly believes that instrumental music isn’t something that only a trained ear can appreciate; it is something that anybody should be able to understand and enjoy. He furthers his belief in that all music should have a meaning and hold weight in the larger context of the world. Nick constantly pursues this philosophy through his compositions; always drawing meaning to everything he writes. Pulling from many styles, Nick creates music which any person could connect to. His music is not categorized as “simply fun to listen to”, but instead as music which evokes specific emotion in people--- immersing them in environments which better connect them to their own self.


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