Nikk Pilato

Biography

Nikk Pilato (born 3 October 1972) is an American conductor and educator, currently serving as Director of Bands at Northern Kentucky University. Nikk earned the Bachelor of Music Education, a Master of Music Education, and a Ph.D. in Conducting and Music Education from the Florida State University College of Music in Tallahassee, Florida, where his primary conducting teachers were Richard Clary, Patrick Dunnigan, and Jim Croft.

In 2008 he created the Wind Repertory Project, a comprehensive online database of wind literature expanded by user contributions, much like Wikipedia. The database includes detailed information such as instrumentation, program notes, errata, study resources, articles, commercially available recordings, and more. In the 12 years since its inception, the WRP has amassed over 22,000 user-submitted entries, and has been visited thirty-five million times.

Works for Winds

Adaptable Music

• Tänze aus Terpsichore (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1612/2011/2020)

All Wind Works

• Ave Maria (as transcriber) (1994/2004)
• Belle Qui Tiens Ma Vie (as arranger)
• E Lucevan Le Stelle (as transcriber)
• Fanfare pour précéder La Péri (as editor)
• New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom (as transcriber)
• Piltdown Man (as editor) (2018)
• Runner Runner
• She Will Hang the Night with Stars (as transcriber) (1999/2018)
• Tänze aus Terpsichore (as arranger) (1612/2011)
• Tänze aus Terpsichore (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1612/2011/2020)
• Words by Moonlight (2019)

Resources

None discovered thus far.