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  • Nick Hallett

    Part-time Lecturer

    Email
    hallettn@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Nick Hallett

    Profile

    Nick Hallett is musician, artist, and organizer.  Their voice-based practice is rooted in play with non-language, song, and technology, resulting in cross-platform works that take form as operas, concerts, installations, websites, and recordings.  Known as an “invaluable” (New Yorker) impresario and collaborator to visual artists and choreographers, they are equally focused on archival reconstruction.  

    Degrees Held

    MA, Wesleyan University (Music Composition)
    BA/BM Oberlin College and Conservatory (Linguistics, Voice Performance)

    Professional Affiliation

    Part time faculty at The New School and School of Visual Arts.  Courses taught at Wesleyan University.  Guest lectures at Bard College, Mills College, Oberlin College, New York University (Performance Studies, Composition), Freie Universität Berlin, and Kunstakademie Münster, among others.  Artist advisory boards of The Kitchen and the New York City AIDS Memorial. 

    Recent Publications

    Transidiomatic Orality: Anthony Braxton's Journey through the Voice, Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik (2025)

    Performances and Appearances

    Museum of Modern Art, Park Avenue Armory, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum, The Kitchen, PERFORMA, Hayden Planetarium, Roulette, ISSUE Project Room, Danspace, and Poetry Project, among many other institutional and commercial spaces in New York and the USA, including the Kennedy Center, Detroit Opera, American Dance Festival, ICA Boston, Warhol Museum, and SFMOMA.  Abroad, Hallett’s work has been presented at Palais de Tokyo, Nuits Blanches, Transmediale (CTM) Festival, Mutek Mexico, Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón, and Singapore Festival of Arts, among many others.

    Research Interests

    Voice Studies, Sound Art, Visual Music, Archival Reconstruction

    Awards And Honors

    • 2022 NY Dance & Performance “Bessie” Award, with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
    • 2018 Mount Tremper Arts residency
    • 2017 NY Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award, with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez
    • 2015 Fisher Center/Bard College Residency  '
    • 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant
    • 2015 El Jardin Sahel residency
    • 2013 Kunsthuis SYB residency, with Shana Moulton
    • 2013 Creative Capital Grantee, with Shana Moulton
    • 2013 Casement Fund Triangle Grant
    • 2010 Harvestworks: Van Lier Residency
    • 2009 Performa commission
    • 2009 New Museum of Contemporary Art Re:New Re:Play Artist Residency

    Future Courses

    Sounding Self: Vocality
    LMUS 3119, Fall 2025

    Past Courses

    Sounding Self: Vocality
    LMUS 3119, Fall 2024

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