Clarinetist Nicholas Gallas is a versatile performer working across symphonic, chamber, opera, contemporary, and theatrical settings.
Gallas has performed frequently in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, and Le Poisson Rouge, and has been featured as a live performer on NPR and Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio. He has also taught and performed in Mexico with Cultures in Harmony, an international cultural diplomacy project. As a guest artist, he has appeared with the New Jersey Symphony, American Symphony Orchestra, American Ballet Theatre, Imani Winds, The Knights, and NOW Ensemble, and has been a member of both the Quintet of the Americas and the American Modern Ensemble, contributing to the performance and promotion of contemporary and cross-cultural repertoire.
He has performed in opera productions ranging from Opera Slavica, devoted to Russian, Czech, and Polish repertoire, and On Site Opera, known for site-specific productions, to world premieres including Paul's Case by Gregory Spears, and A Marvelous Order, an opera about the clash between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, by Judd Greenstein, Tracy K. Smith, and Josh Frankel.
On Broadway, he has performed in the orchestras of five Tony Award-winning productions: My Fair Lady, The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, and Sunset Boulevard. He has also toured the United States with singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik, performing songs from his musicals Spring Awakening and Whisper House.
As a recording artist, Gallas has contributed to projects spanning classical and film music, including soundtracks by Philip Glass and Bruce Hornsby, the 2020 world premiere recording of Dame Ethel Smyth's The Prison, which received the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, and the album A Dream Within a Dream with Useful Chamber.
Gallas holds degrees from The Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music.