Nico Muhly

A three-minute choral work for SATTB choir unaccompanied, commissioned by the New Generation Foundation (f.k.a. Fondazione Mascarade Opera) with special thanks to Charles Klein. First performed on 29...

Written for countertenor and string ensemble, this is a setting of Consummation by Thomas Traherne, and is in response to Bellini’s St. Francis in Ecstasy. Commissioned by The Frick Collection, the fi...

The Panther is an anthem for SATB chorus and organ, The Panther is a choral anthem by Nico Muhly, setting a text by Eleanor Parker, based on a poem from The Exeter Book. Muhly says: The Exeter Book is...

Written for countertenor and string ensemble, this is a setting of Consummation by Thomas Traherne, and is in response to Bellini’s St. Francis in Ecstasy. Commissioned by The Frick Collection, the fi...

Four Traditional Songs is a setting of four heartbreaking and poignant folk songs by virtuoso contemporary composer Nico Muhly. Composed in 2011, the songs deal with themes of death, murder and unimag...

Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Loosely inspired by a true case that happened in the North of England a few years ago, Nico Muhly's opera enters the secret world of the teenage bedroom and exp...

Nico Muhly's Time After Time, scored for Soprano Saxophone, Marimba and Percussion. The work was composed in 2003 and lasts around 8 minutes.   Time After Time wascomposed for the Yesaroun' Duo (...

Wish You Were Here, written for the Boston Pops, pays homage to Colin McPhee, one of the first western musicologists to study Balinese gamelan, as well as to the great illustrators Carl Barks and Herg...

Vocal score for Nico Muhly's God Will Be Their Light. Composed for AATTBB choir unaccompanied, includes texts from Revelation 22 vv.1-2 King James Version (1611) & Prayer for Compline (after Revelatio...

Commissioned by Dartington Music Summer School & Festival - Summer 2021.

For the Reverend Graeme Napier, Rector of St John's in the Village, New York City, on the occasion of his Silver Anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood, celebrated on 12 September 2021. Gift of t...

A New Song is a beautiful work composed for SATB choir a cappella and written in 2011 for Tim Brown and the Zürcher Sing-Akademie. The work sets text from Psalms 108, 138 and 144.

Contemporary American composer Nico Muhly is a prolific writer and arranger who, at 32, is the youngest composer ever to have been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His oeuvre includ...

The sheet music of Nico Muhly's work Recordare, Domine for unaccompanied SATB (Soprano/Alto/Tenor/Bass) Chorus. Originally commissioned by The Tallis Scholars from the Lincoln Center of the Performing...

Nico Muhly's All Our Works for unaccompanied SATB Choir. This piece incorporates words by Thomas Cranmer. It was commissioned by The Cardinall's Musick for their 25th Anniversary in 2014, with the sup...

Lord Heare My Prayer Instantly is a composition by renowned contemporary composer Nico Muhly that was first performed on the 13th of December 2014 in the All Souls Episcopal Parish Church in Berkeley,...

Nico Muhly's In One Place for SATB chorus unaccompanied. This work incorporates words by John Donne, paraphrasing Acts 2:1 Pentecost Antiphons.

Nico Muhly 's Three Moon Songs is a work for Unaccompanied SATB Choir, lasting around 9 minutes. Each song sets a poem from Symbolist poet Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot Lunaire', translated by Gregory C. R...

Gentle Sleep is a work by Nico Muhly for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, it was premiered by Stile Antico on 27th November at Wigmore Hall, London. The text comes from William...

Nico Muhly's In Great Numbers for unaccompanied SATB choir. This work was commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Foundation Hoffman, a Swiss grant-making fo...

Nico Muhly's Marrow composed for SATB choir unaccompanied with texts from Psalm 63 vv. 1-3, 6-8 Book of Common Prayer (1662). Commissioned by the Netherlands Chamber Choir for the project 150 Psalms t...

Rough Notes was commissioned and premiered by The Tallis Scholars in 2018 and sets text from the diary entries of Captain Robert Scott during the Terra Nova expedition to Antarctic.

A setting of a text from the 15th century Selden Carol Book. The work was written for the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Mark Williams, Informator Choristarum. Duration: 5 mins >

Commissioned by the Tallis Scholars in 2022, ‘No Resting Place’ is a 25 minute setting of Lamentations, verses 1-5, interspersed with short fragments of interviews from the Windrush Generation. The ve...