Nico Muhly

Commissioned by Gondwana Choirs and Lyn Williams, Artistic Director. The first performance was given on July 15th, 2019 at Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.

A treble voice setting of a text by Australian poet Roberta 'Bobbi' Sykes. Commissioned by the Gondwana Choirs and their Artistic Director, Lyn Williams. It was premiered at Sydney Opera House Concert...

Commissioned by Chanticleer and premiered in April 2022, "Beauty of the Day" is a setting of texts that capture the wonder and grandeur of the natural world, and we can't imagine a more perfect topic...

Commissioned by the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. A setting of Thomas Traherne from The Anticipation.

Sur un texte d'Alice Goodman (2024), d'après John of Grimestone (14e siècle), ce chant est écrit pour chœur SATB, voix d'homme en semichorus et orgue. Il a été commandé par la Harrow School et créé le...

Ce court hymne reprend le texte du poème de guerre Candlemas, 1915 d'Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941). Il a été créé le 2 février 2025 par le Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, sous la direction de Mark W...

Moving Parts' is the music for Benjamin Millepied's ballet of the same name. Scored for Violin, Clarinet and Pipe Organ, the piece is a series of rhythmic etudes. The slow movement is a very slow pass...

Big Time is a composition by Nico Muhly for String Quartet and Percussion (1 player). Commissioned by the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival for their 20th anniversary in 2012, the performance las...

Big Time is a composition by Nico Muhly for String Quartet and Percussion (1 player). Commissioned by the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival for their 20th anniversary in 2012, the performance las...

An arrangement of Dowland’s I Saw My Lady Weep followed by a set of variations for trombone and string quartet.

Écrite pour contre-ténor et ensemble à cordes, cette œuvre est une mise en musique de Consummation de Thomas Traherne, en réponse à St. Francis in Ecstasy de Bellini. Commandée par la Frick Collection...

Nico Muhly 's Fast Dances (2014) for two Harps. Score and parts.

Transcribed for Harp, Falling Berceuse was written for solo piano by Nico Muhly during the Coronavirus lock-down and premiered by the talented musician and cellist Leo Popplewell.

Sentences is a thirty-minute meditation, in collaboration with Adam Gopnik, on several episodes drawn from the life and work of Alan Turing. Turing lived, in a sense, many different lives, but at the...

Nico Muhly 's Pulses, Cycles, Clouds for large mixed Percussion ensemble was written for the 50th anniversary of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. At its core, it is a group of four marimbas...

Two Voices is a work by Nico Muhly for Violin and Piano, composed in 2010. Commissioned by Hilary Hahn as part of the Encores Project, a full performance lasts around 5 minutes. This is the Score.

Three Études for Piano by Nico Muhly. 'In preparation for writing a large (uncompleted) work for piano, I decided to write three short pieces to get certain musical tics out of my system. Each...

Nico Muhly's Four Studies for two Violins and Drone. ' Four Studies was written for Angela and Jennifer Chun in 2014. Each movement has a drone which lasts for the duration of the movement. The first...

Sur le texte de On Christmas-Day de Thomas Traherne (1636/7-1674), ce chant est écrit pour chœur SATB et orgue. Il a été commandé pour le Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, et créé le 8 décembre 2024,...

Beaming Music was expertly composed in 2002 by Nico Muhly, for Marimba and Organ. Beaming Music is, at its heart, about small rhythmic cells transforming themselves into large, open chords. While this...

Commissioned for the Claremont Trio by Robert and Jane Morse for the world premiere performance October 30, 2008. Score and parts for Piano Trio (Violin, Cello and Piano). Common Ground employs thre...

Duet No. 1: Chorale Pointing Downwards is a work by contemporary composer Nico Muhly for Viola and Cello. The piece received its premiere at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York in February 2004....

Diacritical Marks was written for the Chiara Quartet in 2011, and is in eight short movements. I have a huge anxiety about string quartets; they are normally meant to be giant expressions of a compose...

Stride is a work for String Quartet by American composer Nico Muhly from 2005.