Discipline: Music Composition

Nicholas Brooke

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Bennington, VT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998, 1999, 2014

Nick Brooke worked on a percussion sextet for Talujon and the Javanese choreographer Mugiyono. Brooke's works often combine homebuilt instruments, theater, and sampling and have been premiered at Mass MoCA, HERE, Spoleto, and Lincoln Center Festival.

Studios

Veltin

Nicholas Brooke worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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