Chickering Salon Series
My Immortal Legacy: Music by Women Composers
Nicholas Southwick, flute
Praised by the Royal Gazette for his “beautiful phrasing” and “bright and lively playing” and by the Boston Musical Intelligencer for his "admirable ensemble cohesion," Nicholas Southwick enjoys a diverse musical career as a flutist, lecturer, and curator passionately committed to bringing over ten centuries of classical music to life in performance, writing, and spoken word.
Nicholas is core flutist of the American Prize winning Juventas New Music Ensemble, where he advocates for the performance of contemporary chamber music. This season, he gave the world premieres of newly commissioned flute works by Soyoka Hayashi and Linda Chase, and recorded solo flute repertoire by Matthew Hetz for Navona Records. Nicholas is a frequent guest artist of the Bay Chamber Concerts, where he recently performed Copland’s Appalachian Spring with soloists Stefan Jackiw, Yoonah Kim, Brad Balliett, and the Toomai String Quintet, and J.S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 with Palaver Strings. He has also performed Bach’s concerti with the Bermuda Chamber Orchestra, was a soloist for the Bach the European series at the Royal Academy of Music, and has performed on Emmanuel Music’s Bach cantata series in Boston. As a recitalist, he has been invited to perform at Harvard University, Salem Classical, the Trentino Festival (Italy), the University of Cambridge, and the Bloomsbury Festival, in London.
Nicholas performs with violist Long Okada in Duo Gwynne, which completed an Artist Fellowship with Music for Food. He also founded the Acadie Duo with cellist Jaime Feldman, with whom he curates an annual chamber music series in rural Maine. Nicholas has a particular interest in interdisciplinary dialogues between music and spirituality, having served as Fellow in Liturgy and Music at Harvard University’s Episcopal Chaplaincy and regularly performing for Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts (DITA).
A devoted and passionate instructor, Nicholas is committed to empowering creativity in the classroom and encouraging robust interdisciplinary dialogues as a vehicle for encountering music within its social, cultural, and historical contexts. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Berklee College of Music and serves as Affiliated Faculty at Emerson College.
Nicholas completed his postgraduate training at the Royal Academy of Music, London under the tutelage of Karen Jones, Laura Jellicoe, and Katherine Baker. He completed his previous studies at the Longy School of Music of Bard College and Gordon College. His past teachers include Marco Granados, Robert Willoughby, and Susan Heath.
Jaime Feldman, cello
Cellist Jaime Feldman discovered her love of chamber music as a twelve year old student at Music@Menlo festival in Palo Alto, CA., when she was captivated by a performance of the Emerson String Quartet. Winning the Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition, Jaime performed the Lalo Cello Concerto at age thirteen in Santa Rosa, California. Jaime trained at the New England Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, and The School for Strings. Her primary teachers have included Amir Eldan, Natasha Brofsky, Irene Sharp, and Jean Michel Fonteneau. She has been in master classes with cellists Colin Carr, Ronald Leonard, and Paul Katz.
Jaime has attended programs and institutions with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Saint Lawrence, Miami, Cavanni, Borromeo, and Takács string quartets. She has performed at The Perlman Music Program, Music@Menlo, California Summer Music, and Zodiac Festival. Jaime has given concerts in France, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, India, and in many parts of the United States.
Jaime has taught private lessons, coached chamber music, and led string ensembles at various institutions including The Brooklyn Conservatory, Moses Brown School, Meadowbrook Waldorf School, and Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School. Currently, Jaime is enjoying a break in her music career to spend more time with her 2 year old.
Fredericka King, piano
Fredericka King has presented recitals in the United States, Europe and South America. The New York Times complimented her debut at Carnegie Recital Hall for its "straightforward style and verve”.
She has been soloist with New England orchestras and featured artist on television and public radio stations (WGBH, Boston; WGMS (Washington, D.C.).
Her recitals and recording feature Classical, American, African-American composers. As cofounder, her group La femme, La femme, performed chamber and solo works by women composers. Also in numerous programs touring U.S. and Spain as soloist and accompanist with the National Spiritual Ensemble.
Studies included degrees from Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory, and Doctoral work at Boston University. Teaching Diploma was awarded at the Royal College of Music (England) and she studied at the Mozarteum in Austria.
Fredericka King is Senior Music Historian-in-Residence at Emerson College and piano faculty at New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School.
