Bio

Nick Saia is a New York based guitarist, composer and teacher. He leads and participates in a range of different projects in the city, from an improvised noise-rock band that dresses up as amphibious monsters, to a country-swing band ("Porcelain Vivisection" & "Strong 7s" respectively). You can hear him playing as a regular sideman in Darius Jones' quintet, Daniel Rossi's "MESS," and many other combinations of New York improvisers. He also is constantly developing a set of solo guitar music that he performs and releases snippets from every few years that is almost entirely his own original music, but sometimes includes pieces by Ledah Finck, Reiko Füting or Luciano Berio. Nick was lucky enough to graduate from the Peabody Institute, and complete graduate studies at The New School, where he studied with Darius Jones, Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, & Felipe Lara.