Composer Nicolas Scherzinger (b. 1968) has received awards and commissions from ASCAP, SOCAN, the Barlow Endowment, the Jerome Foundation, the Canada Council, and the Eastman School of Music, and his music has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Russia, as well as in Taiwan and China. Recently, his works have been premiered or performed at such venues as the International Viola Conference, the World Saxophone Congress, the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, the International Double Reed Conference, the Aspen Music Festival, the International Gaudeamus New Music Festival, the Seal Bay Festival, Lincoln Center, and at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Many distinguished artists have performed his works, including John Graham, Bradley Lubman, David Gilbert, Sydney Hodkinson, Christopher Marks, Joseph Lulloff, Julia Nolan, Randall Hall, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the USC Thornton Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Cassatt String Quartet, the Ethos Percussion Group, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Meridian Phase II ensemble. His works have been broadcast on WCNY, WBFO and CBC RadioTwo, and recorded on Raven Compact Disks and Innova Recordings. Since 2006, Scherzinger has been composer-in-residence at the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont. He is a member of ASCAP, the American Music Center, and the Society of Composers Inc. and his works are published by ScherziMusic Press. Scherzinger is associate professor of Composition at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University where he teaches composition, theory, improvisation, and digital music. In addition to his work as a professional composer and educator, he is active as a performer of improvisatory works for saxophone and interactive computer. Scherzinger received a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York (1995-2000), and a Bachelor of Music in saxophone performance from Western Washington University (1986-1991). He has studied composition with Roger Briggs, David Liptak, Augusta Read Thomas, Christopher Rouse, Allan Schindler, and Joseph Schwantner. He currently lives in Syracuse, New York and New York City with his wife, pianist Adrienne Kim, and their recently born son, Noah.

Future commissions include a work for piano trio to be premiered at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in May 2008 by Lisa Tipton, violin, Alberto Parrini, cello, and Adrienne Kim, piano.The Syracuse University Trumpet Ensemble will premiere a new work at the International Trumpet convention in Banff, Canada in June 2008. Most recently, Joseph Lulloff, saxophone, performed "Shadowed" for soprano saxophone and interactive computer on tour in the USA and Russia. In 2007, "Fractured Mirrors" was performed by both the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble and the USC Thornton Contemporary Music Ensemble. In January 2008, "Elegy" was performed at Rose Studio at Lincoln Center by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Erin Keefe, violin and Gillles Vonsattel, piano. The Athabasca String Trio, Jane Chung, violin, Tawnya Popoff, viola, and Caroline Stinson, cello, will premiere a new string trio in 2008/2009.