Nico Muhly

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...

Sidney Responses is a work for chorus a cappella for David Skinner and the Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. It was composed in 2023 as part of the composer’s residency at the college.

A short choral setting of Centuries of Meditations, no. 87, edited by Bertram Dobell (1908). Written for the Choirs of Magdalen, Christ Church and New College, Oxford, on the occasion of the Annual Co...

Fallings is a work for chorus a cappella commissioned by the Byrd Ensemble with text from the biblical book of Isaiah.

Nico Muhly’s Prosperitie is a choral setting for eight voices. It sets Psalm 1, v. 3 from the Wycliffe Bible, the earliest known literal translation of the entire Bible into Middle English.

Nico Muhly’s One Star is a short piece for a cappella chorus commissioned by the Bethlehem Cultural Festival with support from Creative Scotland. The first performance was given at the annual Christma...

Oculi Omnium is a work by Nico Muhly for Unaccompanied Men's Voices. It is a setting of Psalm 144:15 and was composed for the Clerks of Magdalen College, Oxford. A full performance lasts around 2 minu...

I'm Only Sixteen!' is a work by Nico Muhly taken from his opera 'Two Boys', commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Scored for Tenor and Piano Accompaniment, the piece lasts around 3 minutes.

Overture for solo cello was written in response to 'Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla' by Anatoliy Fatakhov.

Three Études For Viola was composed by American composer and arranger Nico Muhly. Written for Nadia Sirot one of Muhly 's friends. Three Études For Viola was designed as performance pieces as well as...

Spiral Mass is a work by Nico Muhly, composed in 2014, commissioned by Holland Festival and BBC Radio 3. The work is arranged for SATB Chorus and Organ Accompaniment, and lasts around 15 minutes. Spir...

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Written for the choristers of Jesus College, Cambridge, this setting of the grace is accompanied by keyboard and drones of any sustaining instrument.

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...

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...

The Last Letter is a work by Nico Muhly for Baritone Voice and Piano. Commissioned by the Barbican Centre and the European Concert Hall Organisation, the text comes from a collection of 'Love Letters...

The vocal score for Marnie, the opera by Nico Muhly written to a libretto by Nicholas Wright based on the 1961 novel by Winston Graham. 

Nico Muhly’s The Mezzo-Soprano’s Song was composed for the publication of the book 13 Words by Lemony Snicket and Maira Kalman and Commissioned by Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency, Inc.

Commissioned by Sasha Cooke. First performed on 30 January 2022 at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco.

For soprano and piano, commissioned by Decca Classics for Renée Fleming. A version arranged for orchestra is available on hire from the publisher.

Nico Muhly’s The Street is a 75 minute collection of meditations on the Stations of the Cross with text by Alice Goodman, scored for harp solo, narration and plainchant. It was commissioned by King’s...

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...

Nico Muhly's Second Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) sheet music, arranged for SATB (Soprano/Alto/Tenor/Bass) Chorus and Organ accompaniment. This piece was originally commissioned by the Choir of...