Bob Nicholson

Winner of 2 East Coast music awards with the Jive Kings, Bob Nicholson
is enjoying an incredibly varied career. Bob plays tuba with Maritime
Brass Quintet and bass trombone with Symphony Nova Scotia, The Back
Alley Big Band and Halifax Trombone Summit. Bob performed for five
years with ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ in Toronto, three years as
tubist with the Calgary based Foothills Brass Quintet, and for 14
summers in the pit orchestra of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ at the
Charlottetown Festival. As an orchestral musician he has performed
with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra,
Calgary Philharmonic, CBC Toronto Jazz Orchestra and the National
Ballet Orchestra among others across Canada . Other theatre work ‘in
the pit’ includes Toronto productions of Beauty and the Beast,
Showboat, Crazy for You, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, A Year with Frog
and Toad at Neptune Theatre and numerous productions at the
Charlottetown Festival. Bob studied at the University of Prince Edward
Island, the Orchestral Training Program at the Royal Conservatory of
Music in Toronto, the University of Toronto, the Banff Centre of the
Arts and two beautiful summers at the Music Academy of the West in
Santa Barbara, California.
Bob teaches at Trombone, Tuba and Euphonium at Acadia University and
is a Brass Specialist for the Halifax Regional Centre of Education.