Nicholas Rastegar is a New York City based composer who was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He started playing piano at 5, and at age ten began learning flute. A few years later a passion for reed instruments led him to study music composition at UC Berkeley where he focused on early music, vocal jazz, and marching band. He was the section leader of the piccolos (and sometimes bass player) in the California Marching Band. He also co-founded the Undergraduate Composers at Berkeley.
Rastegar has written music for television and recently finished composing an opera. He is available for private instruction on any woodwind or piano, as well as commissions for arranging/transcribing/composing, and performance as a reed doubler (piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bassoon, sax).