Nico Muhly

With text by Alice Goodman (2024), after John of Grimestone (14th Century), this carol is scored for SATB choir, male voice semichorus and organ. It was commissioned by Harrow School and first perform...

This short anthem sets a text from the wartime poem Candlemas, 1915 by Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941). It was first performed on 2 February 2025 by the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, conducted by Ma...

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.

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...

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.

Vagn Holmboe's String Quartet No. 2 ('2. Quartetto') / Strygekvartet Nr. 2 Op. 47 (1949). Dedicated to Leo Hansen-Kvartetten. Parts available: VI00535A

Look For Me is a work by contemporary composer Nico Muhly for Reed Quintet. The score is in the key of C and is arranged for Cor Anglais (doubling Oboe), Clarinet in Bb, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Soprano (...

From the Golden Globe nominated movie, The Reader, comes three arrangemetns for Viola and Piano. The Piano takes the lead, with the Viola instead providing drones, shimmers, and swells.

Drones & Viola was written by Nico Muhly for Thomas Bartlett and Nadia Sirotain in 2011. Every movement begins with either the Piano or Viola establishing a drone for the duration of the movement. Ove...