Regarded for his creative audience-appealing programming, NICHOLAS SCHMELTER (b. 1982) graduated in 2006 with a Master of Music degree in organ performance from Central Michigan University, where he studied with Dr. Steven Egler. He was awarded honors at CMU including a Graduate Fellowship, the Centralis Scholar Award, the School of Music Performance Scholarship, and the Presser Foundation Award. In addition to performing in venues throughout the USA, Nicholas made his European debut in 2019 with several subsequent recitals in Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland. A composer himself published by ECS Publishing Group, Nicholas has commissioned and premiered new music by Moonyeen Albrecht, Carson Cooman, Robert Powell, Philip Rice, Bernard Wayne Sanders, Benjamin Teague, and others. A church musician since the age of sixteen, he offers private instruction and coaching, is a sought-after choral accompanist, and enjoys several musical partnerships, including Dual-Art, his piano-organ duo collaboration with pianist Tyler Kivel. His music has been broadcasted on Michael Barone’s radio program Pipedreams. He is Kyrkomusiker in Anderslövs församling in Skåne County, Sweden. He has served as Artist in Residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in Bay City, Michigan, and at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Flint, Michigan.