Musician Bio

A native of Brookline, Massachusetts, Nicholas Gallitano joins the viola section of the ISO for the 2024-25 season. Prior to moving to Indianapolis, he played regularly as a substitute with the New York Philharmonic, helping to inaugurate the newly refurbished David Geffen Hall and joining multiple national and international tours to Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and the Bravo! Vail Music Festival. He has also performed with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Akron and Canton symphony orchestras. A seasoned chamber
musician, Nicholas has performed as a guest artist at the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, where he joined the quartet-in-residence, the Axelrod Quartet, for performances of Brahms String Quintet No. 2 in G Major playing the set of Stradivari instruments on which the piece was premiered. He has been a festival artist at the Arazzo Music Festival and Manchester Summer Chamber Music, as well as New York City local series including Music for Food and Fort Greene Chamber Music Society. In his life as a young artist, he found homes at Kneisel Hall, the Perlman Music Program, Sarasota Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West, as well as at masterclasses such as IMS Prussia Cove and Internationale Sommerakademie Bad Leonfelden. Nicholas began his studies with Gillian Rogell and Michele Parker in Brookline, MA, and holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Oberlin Conservatory, where his primary teachers were Roger Tapping, Peter Slowik, Molly Carr, and Samuel Rhodes. In addition to his degrees in music, he holds a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies with a minor in History from Oberlin College.