Nicholas Morrish

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Nicholas Morrish (1989) is a composer working with acoustic ensembles and electronics in increasingly multimedia situations. His most recent pieces explore the grain, spectrality and atmospherics of media and sound surfaces that render time as an audible materiality.

Nick is the holder of the Mendelssohn Scholarship (2018-20), a Gaudeamus Award 2019 nominee, and a Styria-Artist-in-Residence Scholarship in 2019. He has been awarded prizes and residencies by LSO Soundhub, NCI (LA Phil), The RSNO Composer's Hub, The Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, Sound and Music's New Voices, New Dots and Inspired by Digital.

His pieces have been performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, ICE, Ensemble Intercontemporain, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, United Instruments of Lucilin, Schallfeld, Nikel, Insomnio, Ensemble Offspring, Catchpenny, Divertimento, The Philharmonia, Workers Union, Kokoro, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Chamber Orchestra amongst many others, with performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall (L.A, USA), Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Neth.), Sydney Opera House (Aus.), MATA (NY, USA), Manifeste (Fr.), Rainy Days Festival (Lux.), Rondo (It.), Impuls (Aust.) Huddersfield Festival, Cheltenham Festival, London Ear Festival, LSO St. Luke's, The Barbican, The RSNO Centre, NonClassical, Henry Wood Hall (U.K.).


Nick spent 2018-19 as a fellow at Harvard University Music Department (with Chaya Czernowin), is completing a doctorate at the Royal College of Music (supervised by Jonathan Cole) and previously studied at Oxford University and Trinity Laban. He was a member of the Professorial Staff at Trinity Laban in 2017-18, and was a graduate teaching assistant at the RCM from 2016-18.

Tri par année. Les pièces les plus recentes apparaissent d'abord

Ensemble (Instruments ou voix) et électronique fixée


Volta for ensemble, electronics and light (2021)
Projections in Real Time for interactive screens, lights, amplified ensemble and electronics (2019)
Angel | Animal for subwoofers, amplified ensemble and electronics (2019)
Y o k o b i t Bass Clarinet, Electric Guitar, Degrade Boxes, Percussion, Fender Rhodes, String Performers (2019)
The traces that remain gramophones, bass clarinet, percussion, stroh violin, stroh cello, sinewaves (2018)

Ensemble de Chambre (5 - 9 instruments)


Life of Lines II Bb Clarinet (with music boxes), percussion, piano, viola/violin, cello (2017)
Angel | Animal for subwoofers, amplified ensemble and electronics (2019)
Life of Lines II Bb Clarinet (with music boxes), percussion, piano, viola/violin, cello (2017)
Projections in Real Time for interactive screens, lights, amplified ensemble and electronics (2019)
The traces that remain gramophones, bass clarinet, percussion, stroh violin, stroh cello, sinewaves (2018)
Volta for ensemble, electronics and light (2021)
Y o k o b i t Bass Clarinet, Electric Guitar, Degrade Boxes, Percussion, Fender Rhodes, String Performers (2019)