Nick has over a decade of experience encompassing virtually all areas of organbuilding, including both mechanical- and electric-action instruments. He spent six years apprenticed to master organbuilder Stefan Maier, and he has also worked with Richards, Fowkes, and Co., and J.L. Weiler, Inc. Since 2025, he has worked at Berghaus Pipe Organ Builders as a voicer, general organbuilder, and service technician. Nick has worked on organ projects in the Midwest, New England, The Bahamas, and Sydney, Australia.  He studied organ performance with James Russell Brown at the Music Institute of Chicago, and has served many Episcopal churches as a musician.

As a piano technician, Nick studied at the Butler School of Piano Technology and is an Associate of the Piano Technician’s Guild (PTG). He previously served as Treasurer of the Western Massachusetts chapter of the PTG.

Nick also has over 15 years of experience teaching courses in philosophy and the humanities.  Having taught in middle school, high school, college, and continuing education programs, he estimates that his students have ranged in age from about 12-80.  He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his dissertation, The Philosophy of Musical Instruments, draws on his practical experience as an organbuilder.