Nick Luby is a 21st-century musician and artist dedicated to truth, joy, community, and service. A multi-genre pianist, improviser, and producer, he concertizes nationally as a solo recitalist and chamber musician with The Concert Truck. Since 2021, Nick has performed over 600 concerts in parks, downtown city streets and squares, neighborhoods, schools, farmers markets, and community gathering places across the country, drawing crowds throughout the US and Canada in over 20 states, and captivating thousands of listeners along the way.

Nick’s collaborators and chamber music partners include James Ehnes and the Ehnes Quartet, Efe Baltecigil, Edward Aaron, Sterling Elliot, Nathan Chan, Ara Gregorian, Rachel Lee Priday, Richard Luby, concertmasters, principals, and members of the Dallas, Seattle, and North Carolina symphonies, Alan Kay, Mikael Darmanie, Joy Guidry, Max Bent, and Lamar Adot Thomas. Nick’s performances, recordings, and interviews have been seen and heard nationwide on local, state, and national TV & radio stations.

Nick has given lectures, workshops, and coachings on music entrepreneurship, community engagement, and chamber music to undergraduate and graduate students at Rice University, the New World Symphony, the University of South Carolina, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival & School. He began teaching at the age of 15 and has served as a teacher of piano, chamber music, and improvisation at the advanced precollege level, both privately and at the Gilman School in Baltimore. He maintained in-person and remote teaching studios until 2021, nurturing his students’ love for music and guiding them to victories in international competitions.

Born and raised in Chapel Hill, NC, Nick is a laureate of the 2019 Prix Ravel in Fontainebleau, France. He holds degrees in piano performance (graduate certificate, M.M.) and music & philosophy (B.A.) from the University of South Carolina, University of Michigan, and Wesleyan University. He resides in Baltimore.