As a Full Professor and Area Head of Strings at UNC Chapel Hill, Nicholas teamed up this past year with Dr. Naomi André and pianist Mimi Solomon in planning and leading the biennial Festival on the Hill. The 2026 Festival,“Speak, Listen,” featured three days of bringing forth important musical voices in a series of collaborative concerts, guest artists, Q&A sessions, and more. Nicholas also continued the second season of his Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project concerts which primarily featured music of 19th-century female composers on period instruments. Additionally, Gut Instinct collaborations extended from UNC to Duke with an appearance on Duke’s Rare Music series.
The ’25-‘26 concert season also included many appearances as guest soloist or leader, including a performance of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto with the UNC Symphony Orchestra. As director of the Luby Symposium at UNC in May 2026, Professor DiEugenio continued to expand the symposium’s reach to include chamber music literature for violin and piano both on modern and period instruments. Nicholas and his artistic partner and wife Mimi Solomon also collaborated with Polish artists Anna Wandtke, violin, and Dominika Glapiak, piano, as part of an ERASMUS grant exchange. This collaboration will continue, with further exchanges and performances scheduled for 2026 and 2027.
In the community, Nicholas is active as the co-Artistic Director of MYCO, a chamber music organization for high school students. The Tempus Quartet, a MYCO group, was chosen as a quarter-finalist at the prestigious national Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend,IN, as well as at the national Coltman Chamber Music Competition in Austin, Texas. Professor DiEugenio continues to be passionately committed to collaboration, and performed in ’25-26 alongside many individual artists and groups, including The Sebastians, with whom he continues as a core member.
As a Full Professor and Area Head of Strings at UNC Chapel Hill, Nicholas teamed up this past year with Dr. Naomi André and pianist Mimi Solomon in planning and leading the biennial Festival on the Hill. The 2026 Festival,“Speak, Listen,” featured three days of bringing forth important musical voices in a series of collaborative concerts, guest artists, Q&A sessions, and more. Nicholas also continued the second season of his Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project concerts which primarily featured music of 19th-century female composers on period instruments. Additionally, Gut Instinct collaborations extended from UNC to Duke with an appearance on Duke’s Rare Music series.
The ’25-‘26 concert season also included many appearances as guest soloist or leader, including a performance of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto with the UNC Symphony Orchestra. As director of the Luby Symposium at UNC in May 2026, Professor DiEugenio continued to expand the symposium’s reach to include chamber music literature for violin and piano both on modern and period instruments. Nicholas and his artistic partner and wife Mimi Solomon also collaborated with Polish artists Anna Wandtke, violin, and Dominika Glapiak, piano, as part of an ERASMUS grant exchange. This collaboration will continue, with further exchanges and performances scheduled for 2026 and 2027.
In the community, Nicholas is active as the co-Artistic Director of MYCO, a chamber music organization for high school students. The Tempus Quartet, a MYCO group, was chosen as a quarter-finalist at the prestigious national Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend,IN, as well as at the national Coltman Chamber Music Competition in Austin, Texas. Professor DiEugenio continues to be passionately committed to collaboration, and performed in ’25-26 alongside many individual artists and groups, including The Sebastians, with whom he continues as a core member.
As a Full Professor and Area Head of Strings at UNC Chapel Hill, Nicholas teamed up this past year with Dr. Naomi André and pianist Mimi Solomon in planning and leading the biennial Festival on the Hill. The 2026 Festival,“Speak, Listen,” featured three days of bringing forth important musical voices in a series of collaborative concerts, guest artists, Q&A sessions, and more. Nicholas also continued the second season of his Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project concerts which primarily featured music of 19th-century female composers on period instruments. Additionally, Gut Instinct collaborations extended from UNC to Duke with an appearance on Duke’s Rare Music series.
The ’25-‘26 concert season also included many appearances as guest soloist or leader, including a performance of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto with the UNC Symphony Orchestra. As director of the Luby Symposium at UNC in May 2026, Professor DiEugenio continued to expand the symposium’s reach to include chamber music literature for violin and piano both on modern and period instruments. Nicholas and his artistic partner and wife Mimi Solomon also collaborated with Polish artists Anna Wandtke, violin, and Dominika Glapiak, piano, as part of an ERASMUS grant exchange. This collaboration will continue, with further exchanges and performances scheduled for 2026 and 2027.
In the community, Nicholas is active as the co-Artistic Director of MYCO, a chamber music organization for high school students. The Tempus Quartet, a MYCO group, was chosen as a quarter-finalist at the prestigious national Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend,IN, as well as at the national Coltman Chamber Music Competition in Austin, Texas. Professor DiEugenio continues to be passionately committed to collaboration, and performed in ’25-26 alongside many individual artists and groups, including The Sebastians, with whom he continues as a core member.
As a Full Professor and Area Head of Strings at UNC Chapel Hill, Nicholas teamed up this past year with Dr. Naomi André and pianist Mimi Solomon in planning and leading the biennial Festival on the Hill. The 2026 Festival,“Speak, Listen,” featured three days of bringing forth important musical voices in a series of collaborative concerts, guest artists, Q&A sessions, and more. Nicholas also continued the second season of his Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project concerts which primarily featured music of 19th-century female composers on period instruments. Additionally, Gut Instinct collaborations extended from UNC to Duke with an appearance on Duke’s Rare Music series.
The ’25-‘26 concert season also included many appearances as guest soloist or leader, including a performance of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto with the UNC Symphony Orchestra. As director of the Luby Symposium at UNC in May 2026, Professor DiEugenio continued to expand the symposium’s reach to include chamber music literature for violin and piano both on modern and period instruments. Nicholas and his artistic partner and wife Mimi Solomon also collaborated with Polish artists Anna Wandtke, violin, and Dominika Glapiak, piano, as part of an ERASMUS grant exchange. This collaboration will continue, with further exchanges and performances scheduled for 2026 and 2027.
In the community, Nicholas is active as the co-Artistic Director of MYCO, a chamber music organization for high school students. The Tempus Quartet, a MYCO group, was chosen as a quarter-finalist at the prestigious national Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend,IN, as well as at the national Coltman Chamber Music Competition in Austin, Texas. Professor DiEugenio continues to be passionately committed to collaboration, and performed in ’25-26 alongside many individual artists and groups, including The Sebastians, with whom he continues as a core member.
As a Full Professor and Area Head of Strings at UNC Chapel Hill, Nicholas teamed up this past year with Dr. Naomi André and pianist Mimi Solomon in planning and leading the biennial Festival on the Hill. The 2026 Festival,“Speak, Listen,” featured three days of bringing forth important musical voices in a series of collaborative concerts, guest artists, Q&A sessions, and more. Nicholas also continued the second season of his Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project concerts which primarily featured music of 19th-century female composers on period instruments. Additionally, Gut Instinct collaborations extended from UNC to Duke with an appearance on Duke’s Rare Music series.
The ’25-‘26 concert season also included many appearances as guest soloist or leader, including a performance of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto with the UNC Symphony Orchestra. As director of the Luby Symposium at UNC in May 2026, Professor DiEugenio continued to expand the symposium’s reach to include chamber music literature for violin and piano both on modern and period instruments. Nicholas and his artistic partner and wife Mimi Solomon also collaborated with Polish artists Anna Wandtke, violin, and Dominika Glapiak, piano, as part of an ERASMUS grant exchange. This collaboration will continue, with further exchanges and performances scheduled for 2026 and 2027.
In the community, Nicholas is active as the co-Artistic Director of MYCO, a chamber music organization for high school students. The Tempus Quartet, a MYCO group, was chosen as a quarter-finalist at the prestigious national Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend,IN, as well as at the national Coltman Chamber Music Competition in Austin, Texas. Professor DiEugenio continues to be passionately committed to collaboration, and performed in ’25-26 alongside many individual artists and groups, including The Sebastians, with whom he continues as a core member.
As a Full Professor and Area Head of Strings at UNC Chapel Hill, Nicholas teamed up this past year with Dr. Naomi André and pianist Mimi Solomon in planning and leading the biennial Festival on the Hill. The 2026 Festival,“Speak, Listen,” featured three days of bringing forth important musical voices in a series of collaborative concerts, guest artists, Q&A sessions, and more. Nicholas also continued the second season of his Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project concerts which primarily featured music of 19th-century female composers on period instruments. Additionally, Gut Instinct collaborations extended from UNC to Duke with an appearance on Duke’s Rare Music series.
The ’25-‘26 concert season also included many appearances as guest soloist or leader, including a performance of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto with the UNC Symphony Orchestra. As director of the Luby Symposium at UNC in May 2026, Professor DiEugenio continued to expand the symposium’s reach to include chamber music literature for violin and piano both on modern and period instruments. Nicholas and his artistic partner and wife Mimi Solomon also collaborated with Polish artists Anna Wandtke, violin, and Dominika Glapiak, piano, as part of an ERASMUS grant exchange. This collaboration will continue, with further exchanges and performances scheduled for 2026 and 2027.
In the community, Nicholas is active as the co-Artistic Director of MYCO, a chamber music organization for high school students. The Tempus Quartet, a MYCO group, was chosen as a quarter-finalist at the prestigious national Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend,IN, as well as at the national Coltman Chamber Music Competition in Austin, Texas. Professor DiEugenio continues to be passionately committed to collaboration, and performed in ’25-26 alongside many individual artists and groups, including The Sebastians, with whom he continues as a core member.
As a Full Professor and Area Head of Strings at UNC Chapel Hill, Nicholas teamed up this past year with Dr. Naomi André and pianist Mimi Solomon in planning and leading the biennial Festival on the Hill. The 2026 Festival,“Speak, Listen,” featured three days of bringing forth important musical voices in a series of collaborative concerts, guest artists, Q&A sessions, and more. Nicholas also continued the second season of his Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project concerts which primarily featured music of 19th-century female composers on period instruments. Additionally, Gut Instinct collaborations extended from UNC to Duke with an appearance on Duke’s Rare Music series.
The ’25-‘26 concert season also included many appearances as guest soloist or leader, including a performance of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto with the UNC Symphony Orchestra. As director of the Luby Symposium at UNC in May 2026, Professor DiEugenio continued to expand the symposium’s reach to include chamber music literature for violin and piano both on modern and period instruments. Nicholas and his artistic partner and wife Mimi Solomon also collaborated with Polish artists Anna Wandtke, violin, and Dominika Glapiak, piano, as part of an ERASMUS grant exchange. This collaboration will continue, with further exchanges and performances scheduled for 2026 and 2027.
In the community, Nicholas is active as the co-Artistic Director of MYCO, a chamber music organization for high school students. The Tempus Quartet, a MYCO group, was chosen as a quarter-finalist at the prestigious national Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend,IN, as well as at the national Coltman Chamber Music Competition in Austin, Texas. Professor DiEugenio continues to be passionately committed to collaboration, and performed in ’25-26 alongside many individual artists and groups, including The Sebastians, with whom he continues as a core member.
