Nico Muhly

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...

With text from On Christmas-Day by Thomas Traherne (1636/7–1674), this carol is scored for SATB choir and organ. It was commissioned for the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, and first performed on 8...

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...

Compare Notes is a beautifully written work for Violin with a fantastic interlocking Piano accompaniment. Written by Nico Muhly this piece beautifully expresses the range of both instruments. The wor...

Drones & Violin was composed by Nico Muhly for Pekka Kuusisto in 2010. Each movement begins with either the Piano or Violin establishing a drone for the duration of the movement, with either the Pian...

The sheet music for contemporary virtuoso composer Nico Muhly's So Many Things, arranged for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano Accompaniment. So Many Things was commissioned by a number of institutions, includi...

Luminous Body is a collaboration between Nico Muhly and Craig Lucas, written in the period immediately following their narratively charged opera 'Two Boys'. Luminous Body is, as a result, abstract and...

Nico Muhly's Looking Up for SATB choir and Orchestra. Commissioned by the Cathedral Choral Society. Made possible by the William Remsen Strickland Endowment Fund 'to remember the concerts of the Cathe...