Nicholas Mazzilli began his practice of music since an early age of three years old. His musical journey has taken many paths ranging through genres such as jazz, folk, classical, rock, bluegrass, R&B, hip-hop, electronic, world, and theme music. His studies have been applied in an array of instruments and voice which have polished an understanding of music as a whole. He completed his undergrad from the classical guitar program directed by Professor Bruce Holzman at Florida State Universitys School of Music. A concentration in sound engineering was conducted during the course of his A.A. Nicholas is an active musician, producer, and teacher in the Okaloosa county, FL community. He regularly performs for school ensembles, churches, coffee shops, night life, celebrations , and charity / activist functions. Formerly, he directed FSUs bluegrass ensemble, Floridas Front Porch. His methods of music pedagogy have been applied with a diverse group of students since 2004. .