About the Music

"I was so impressed by your husband's music and by your remarkable skill at performing it! It is clearly challenging to play, yet emotionally so rewarding to hear! I truly enjoyed your concert "
Julie Vecchitto, Kent School, CT- April,2007

Harpsichord

"La Tomba di Scarlatti' is a beautifully balanced work made up of three pieces, each of a strongly different character-- written by the American composer Nicholas Van Slyck. Here is a work beautifully written for the instrument and of a beautiful construction in itself.      
A.F. Brussels: La Dernier Heure

Van Slyck knows how to write for the harpsichord. It is real music, and it is magnificent.
Denise Restou
Assistant and colleague of Wanda Landowska

Suite for Harpsichord- (No.1)—is a revelation in regard to musical expression on the harpsichord; the music was warm and meaningful.

Piano—For Teaching

Finger Paints for Piano, Vol. 1     Grades2-3

Van Slyck uses such 20th century techniques as irregular rhythms, mirror writing, tone clusters, and moderately dissonant harmonies. An excellent supplementary volume for the adult beginner, it also features several pieces well suited for children, notably “Seascape”, “Mobile”, and “Boating”.    
B. K.  Clavier Magazine

With Twenty Fingers,—Piano four hands

Volumes 1 and 2----A fine album composed in an ungimmicky, clean style—excellent compositions. A real contribution to four hand literature. 
Music Librarians Journal

Splendid for adventurous players.   Clavier Magazine
Volume 3--Music which is refreshingly different—a challenge to better one’s ensemble performance. Clavier Magazine.       

Trudi and Nicholas Van Slyck

Piano LP

Pantomime, Twelve Cadenzas, Will-o’-the-Wisp, Capriccio No. 3.
(from Fanfare)

What makes his music different is that Van Slyck’s music has a basically neoclassical élan combined with romantic gestures that make all such goings-on seem as natural as if they’d been around for 200 years. –an unusually listenable disc of vivid piano music. Good engineering, good notes. I do recommend it.
--(the music) effectively accomplishes everything it sets out to do: it sounds rewarding to play, and it’s fun to hear.  
Richard Dyer, Boston Globe