Nick Demeris is a two-time TEDx participant (speaker and host), actor, singer, and facilitator of community building through music, turning audiences into orchestras around the globe. In his fourth year as a singer, creator, and teaching artist at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Nick works with master musicians, Public School teachers, aspiring artists, and young people in the juvenile justice system, to improvise, write, produce, and record original music. Nick performs original music and teaching #humaninstruments workshops at retreats and conferences internationally. Nick holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theatre from Illinois State University. He studied clown with Paola Coletto (Jacques Lecoq alumni teacher) for two years and has completed All the Way In, the yearlong training in jazz and vocal improvisation, with master singer Rhiannon (a member of Bobby McFerrin’s Gimme 5) and is a three-time participant in Bobby McFerrin’s weeklong Circle Songs training where he also has led workshops.