Longtime Vermont composer Erik Nielsen turns 75 this year. In celebration, groups around the state will perform the Brookfield resident’s music, including the Vermont Wind Ensemble, the University of ...

Erik Nielsen hoped to spend his life as a rock composer, but he had too many ideas for the popular but simple form. So he found his muse as one of Vermont s most respected classical music composers.

Composer Erik Nielsen isn’t a native of Vermont, but he might as well be, given the way the state has embraced him. Just turned 75, he is one of Vermont’s most successful composers, one of the few in ...

Brookfield composer Erik Nielsen just turned 75. In a difficult field, his music has been performed throughout Vermont as well as at major venues like the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Carnegie ...