Nico Muhly

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Nico Muhly, born in 1981, is an American composer who writes orchestral music, works for the stage, chamber music and sacred music. He’s received commissions from The Metropolitan Opera: Two Boys, (2011) and Marnie (2018); Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Tallis Scholars, King’s College and St John’s College, Cambridge, Wigmore Hall, and The Philadelphia Orchestra, among others. He is an avid collaborator, and has worked with choreographers Benjamin Millepied at the Paris Opéra Ballet, Bobbi Jene Smith at the Juilliard School, Justin Peck and Kyle Abraham at New York City Ballet; artists Sufjan Stevens, The National, Teitur, Anohni, James Blake and Paul Simon; and has written film scores for The Reader (2008) and Kill Your Darlings (2013), and the BBC adaptation of Howards End (2017). 

Among his concerti are works for violin, (Shrink, for Pekka Kuusisto), organ (Register, for James McVinnie), viola (Nadia Sirota) He collaborates with the same artists as a composer and performer of chamber music. He has written vocal works for Iestyn Davies, Renée Fleming, and Nicholas Phan, has collaborated with artists Maira Kalman and Oliver Beer, and has created site-specific pieces for the National Gallery, London, and the Art Institute of Chicago, and written articles for the Guardian, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books. Recordings of his works have been released by Decca and Nonesuch, and he is part of the artist-run record label Bedroom Community, which released his first two albums, Speaks Volumes (2006) and Mothertongue (2008). 

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  • JOCELYN POOK ET NICO MUHLY NOMMÉS POUR LES BAFTA TV CRAFT AWARDS DE 2018

    JOCELYN POOK ET NICO MUHLY NOMMÉS POUR LES BAFTA TV CRAFT AWARDS DE 2018

    26th mars 2018

    Les nominations pour les BAFTA TV Craft Awards 2018 , la grande cérémonie des prix de la télévision britannique , ont été annoncées ; 2 compositeurs Music Sales concourent dans la catégorie Meilleure Musique Originale : Nico Muhly pour...

  • Nico Muhly signe la musique d'une série web pour Nike

    Nico Muhly signe la musique d'une série web pour Nike

    8th février 2016

    Nico Muhly (The Reader, Kill Your Darlings, Me Earl & The Dying Girl) a composé une musique originale pour la web série inédite de 8 épisodes réalisée par la maison Nike à l’occasion de sa nouvelle campagne, Better For It, en collaboration...