Nick Dunston is a composer and bassist named an “indispensable player on the New York avant-garde” (New York Times). He has performed professionally with artists such as Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer, Marc Ribot, Ches Smith, Imani Uzuri, Ingrid Laubrock, Anna Webber, Jonathan Finlayson, Amirtha Kidambi, María Grand, Amir ElSaffar, Matt Wilson, Allison Miller, and Darius Jones. In 2019, Dunston was awarded the Van Lier Fellowship by Roulette Intermedium, which supported premieres of The Floor is Lava! (upright bass quintet), and La Operación (double saxophone trio + soprano voice), called “a work so dramatic and large that is both a response to socio-historical truth as well as a reflection on his own identity…” (I Care If You Listen). In 2019 he released his debut album, Atlantic Extraction, which “features the unusual instrumentation of double bass, drums, electric guitar, flute, [and violin] — and his compositions put that configuration to imaginative use.” (The Wire).
