Nicole Chamberlain, born Nicole Randall, is a composer and flautist living in Atlanta, GA. Her works have been performed from Alias Chamber Ensemble in Nashville, TN to flautist, James Strauss in Recife, Brazil. The bulk of Nicole's work is for the concert setting, but she has also set some films to music, winning 'Best Original Score' for the 2003 Atlanta 48 Hour Film Project for the musical 'Storyboard in A Major'. She worked for a number of years at a children's multimedia company as music director where wrote most of the company's soundtracks. Nicole's works have been featured on "Live in Studio C", bowed.org, and Dartmouth College's Electronic music festival. Nicole was awarded Atlanta Pen Women's Composer of the Year 2008 and her work 'Mangosteen' is featured on a new cd of works compiled by the Georgia Chapter of the National Museum of Women and Agnes Scott College. 'Mangosteen' will also be performed at the Nineth Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Nicole received her Bachelors in Music Composition from the University of Georgia where she studied with Dr. William Davis, Dr. Leonard Ball, and Dr.Lewis Nielson and was selected for master classes with Charles Wuorinen and Joan Tower.

Nicole, as a flutist, currently performs with duoATL(www.duoatl.com), Mercury Season, New Atlanta Philharmonic, and various jazz situations throughout Atlanta. She has appeared with such groups as neoPhonia, Bent Frequency, Capitol City Opera, and Orchestra Atlanta. She has performed at the Spoleto Music Festival in Charleston, at various colleges like Emory University's Schwartz Center, and local venues such as Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. Nicole has participated in Masterclasses with Paul Edmund-Davies (London Symphony Orchestra) and Dr. Gordon Cole (University of Kentucky). Nicole's former flute teachers have included Donna Orbavich (Hong Kong Symphony), Lisa Wienhold (Alabama Symphony), Dr. Ronald Waln (University of Georgia) and currently is an active student of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's principal flutist, Christina Smith. You can find out more and listen to Nicole's music at http://www.nikkinotes.com.