About Nick

Get to know Nick
Nicholas Psihountas currently serves as the Adjunct
Professor of Tuba, Euphonium, and Trombone at Methodist University. Having
graduated the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) in 2018
with a Professional Artist Certificate, he remains actively involved with his
Alma Mater. Before moving to North Carolina, Nicholas received his Master’s of
Music at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) while studying with
Matthew Gaunt, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance at Columbus State
University with Andrew Miller of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
While attending Columbus State University, Nicholas
not only played tuba, but also performed on bass trombone in Bradley Palmer’s internationally
renowned CSU Trombone Choir. In Nicholas’s third year at Columbus State, he was
a finalist for the Southeast Regional Tuba & Euphonium Conference
Competition in the Mock Military Round. In 2015, Nicholas was the winner of UWM’s
Spring Concerto Competition where he performed Richard Strauss’s Horn Concerto
No. 1 in E-Flat major, Opus 11 with the University. He was also a finalist in
the UNCSA concerto competition in 2018.
Nicholas currently freelances as a teacher, musician,
and audio engineer throughout the greater Triad Area in North Carolina. After
graduating in 2018, Nicholas remained as a Co-Instructor for the Tuba &
Euphonium studio where he both taught and performed regularly alongside Dr.
Mark Norman for two years. As a musician, he has performed with a variety of
ensembles including the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, Union Symphony
Orchestra, The American Music Ensemble, Giannini Brass, Wilmington Symphony
Orchestra, Piedmont Wind Symphony, and North Carolina Brass Band. He actively
subs with the Winston-Salem Symphony Brass Quintet in their effort to spread
music to public schools across North Carolina. Nicholas serves as a current
member for The American Music Ensemble, a ten-piece ensemble dedicated to performing
music by Great American composers of the 19th and 20th
Century. While he no longer actively plays with the group, he was a member of
UNCSA’s Chrysalis Brass Quintet program for 3 ½ years, even after graduating.
Since moving to Winston-Salem in 2017, Nicholas has
immersed himself as a low brass instructor in several programs including The
Salvation Army – Washington Park Corps, North Carolina Youth Brass Band,
Charlotte Music School, Upbeat Music Company, Community Music School of UNC
School of the Arts, and several public schools in the area. He has extensive
performance experience on trombone, euphonium, and tuba in both big ensembles
and chamber settings. He has also shared the stage with renown musicians like
Carol Jantsch, Joseph Alessi, and even Andrea Bocelli.