Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly's Hymn (from an Ancient Hurrian Cult Song from Ancient Ugarit) for countertenor and ensemble.

First performed during a Meditation for Christmas at Westminster Abbey on 19th December 2010. Each prelude is based on each of the Seven Great O Antiphons for Advent.

Nico Muhly's prelude for his friend, the Rev'd James Mustard, features slow-moving harmonies with a breathy warmth, but it's through a sparkling, crystalline pane of arpeggios. Nico Muhly has an almos...

Nico Muhly's Patterns is a work in four sections for solo Organ. Patterns was commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for the 2014 Biennial National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, U. S....

Nico Muhly's Hudson Preludes for solo Organ.

Fast Cycles for Organ is a piece composed by Nico Muhly which appears on organist James McVinnie's album 'Cycles'. The song was commissioned by McVinnie and dates from 2009. A difficult piece, it show...

Prelude On Lasst Uns Erfreuen is a work by renowned contemporary composer Nico Muhly, for Organ. Lasting around 6 minutes, it was composed in 2007. The composition was dedicated to Alison Shafer, comm...

For solo organ - dedicated to Luca Myers & the Choir of Sidney Sussex, Cambridge

A Hudson Cycle' was written as a wedding gift for two friends. This is music of longing and anticipation; losing a beautiful place, approaching a beloved person.

For Drones and Piano. Commissioned by the 2010 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival with assistance from Joan K. Sharda and the New England Conservatory of Music, for pianist Bruce Brubaker.

Nico Muhly is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger, writing fresh new and beautifully arranged pieces for the classical music scene. Short Stuff, a toccata like work, was com...

Nico Muhly is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger. You Can't Get There From Here is no exception to Nico 's beautiful and accomplished style of writing. The work was commiss...

Nico Muhly's Perpetual Motion for Solo Piano. Commissioned by Marley Blue Lewis for her father, Daniel, on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Nico Muhly's Strange Productions for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. Composed in 2016.

A setting for high voice and piano of Lawrence Andrewes text from Sermon XIII, preached on Christmas Day 1619. The work was composed for the MATA festival in celebration of its 20th anniversary. Premi...

Written for Conor Hanick, Pastoral (Indoors/Outdoors) plays true to the title, but with small, illuminating tensions.

A gift to The Right Reverend Christopher Foster in thanksgiving for his ministry in Portsmouth as Bishop 2010-2021. Commissioned on behalf of Portsmouth Cathedral and sung by the Cathedral Choir at hi...

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...

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...

Composed in 2005. First performed by the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, conducted by Eric Hewitt. Program Note: So To Speak is an extended meditation on an anthem for Pentecost by Thomas Tallis en...

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...