Nick Falco is a 1999 graduate of Elmhurst College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education. He has been a winner of the Italian Cultural Center's Vocal Music Scholarship and an awarded participant in the Bel Canto Scholarship Competition. In the summer of 2000, Nick studied and performed opera at Dante's Centro Studi Italiani in Urbania, Italy. He also taught music workshops in Jamaica during college and has recorded some local jingles for radio advertisements. Nick works as a private pianist in the Chicagoland area.

Also experienced in musical theatre, Nick had roles in Godspell, Assassins, Guys & Dolls, Damn Yankees, Grease, The Coconuts, Pippin, and Anything Goes during his educational years as well as the straight plays of Les Miserables, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Cenci. Nick has been a member of the a cappella group Out Of The Blue, the cover band Group Dynamic, The Grant Park Symphony Chorus, and has performed solo for Mayor Richard Daley. Nick has also performed in Walt Disney World, Carnegie Hall, and recently in Chicago's Auditorium Theater in a special concert of "The Lord of the Rings Symphony" for composer Howard Shore.

He is currently busy teaching private voice at John Hersey High School, Elk Grove High School and Wheeling High School in Twp. High School District No. 214. In the evenings, his time is spent singing with An Octave Above, The Chicago Symphony Chorus, and the 24-voice ensemble, The Chicago Symphony Singers.

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