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Nico Muhly (Born 1981 in Vermont) is a contemporary Western classical music
composer[1],
who has worked and recorded with classical and pop/rock musicians.
He currently lives in the Chinatown section of Manhattan in New York City.
Biography
Early
Years
Muhly was born in Vermont and raised in Providence, Rhode
Island. His mother is a painter and teacher at Wellesley
College and his father is a documentary filmmaker.[2]
As a child, Muhly sang in the choir at an Episcopalian Church in
Providence,[3]
and he started to study piano at 10.[2]
Muhly went on to study at Columbia University where he got
his undergraduate degree in English and at The Juilliard School
where he graduated with his Master's degree in Music. He had
studied composition with John Corigliano and Christopher Rouse.
Musical
works
Muhly worked in collaboration with Björk on the DVD single "Oceania" in
2004,[4]
and he worked with Philip Glass as an editor, conductor, and
keyboardist.[4]
In 2006, he released his first album of works, titled Speaks
Volumes. In 2008, he released his second album, titled
Mothertongue.
In 2009, Muhly worked on various classical compositions with the
Brooklyn-based indie-folk rock band Grizzly Bear on their third album,
Veckatimest,[5] and he
worked on Antony and the Johnsons' album
The Crying
Light.
Upcoming
projects
Muhly, along with librettist Craig Lucas has finished an opera called
Two Boys for the Metropolitan Opera . According to a
New York Times article, the opera is based
on a late-1990s British case involving a 14-year-old boy taking on
the online
identity of women to try to get someone to kill him, without
success.[6]
However, in an interview with the Advocate, Muhly stated that the
opera is based on the story of an online friendship between two
male teenagers, one of whom kills the other.[2]
Muhly is currently working on two commissions for UK-based Britten
Sinfonia. The first commission is for Britten Sinfonia's
acclaimed At Lunch series and will be performed in Krakow,
Cambridge, London, Birmingham, and Norwich in January 2010. The
second work will feature in a tour of the Netherlands and as
performances in Cambridge, Norwich, London, Dartington, and
Bradford-upon-Avon in February 2010.
Projects
- Choral
- First Service (2004)
- A Good Understanding (2005)
- Bright Mass With Canons (2005)
- Expecting the Main Things from You (2005)
- I Cannot Attain Unto It (2005)
- The Sweets of Evening (2006)
- Syllables (2007)
- Film
- (2006) Choking Man
- (2007) Joshua
- (2006) Wonder Showzen, Clarence Special Report
- (2008) The
Reader
- Incidental
- (2005) Iphegenia at Aulis (”Gweek Project”)
- Orchestra
- (2001–2002) Fits & Bursts
- (2003) Out of the Loop
- (2004) So to Speak
- (2006) It Remains to be Seen
- (2007) Wish You Were Here
- (2007) Seeing is Believing
- Piano
- (2003) Three Études for Piano
- (2005) A Hudson Cycle
- (2005) Pillaging Music
|
- Percussion
- (2002) Beaming Music
- (2003) Time after Time
- (2004) It’s About Time
- (2005) Pillaging Music
- (2005) Ta & Clap
- (2008) I Shudder to Think
- Small Ensemble
- (2003) Time after Time
- (2003) Clear Music
- (2003) Duet No 1: Chorale Pointing Downwards
- (2004) By All Means[7]
- (2006) How About Now
- Solo
- (2002) Radiant Music
- (2003) Honest Music[8]
- (2004) It’s About Time
- (2005) Keep in Touch
- (2005) Pillaging Music
- (2005) It Goes without Saying
- Voice
|
Arrangements and
Orchestrations
Recordings
- 2007 - Speaks Volumes (Bedroom Community HVALUR1CD)
(Includes Clear Music; It Goes without Saying;
Honest Music; Quiet Music; Pillaging
Music; A Hudson Cycle and Keep in
Touch)
- 2008 - Joshua (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by
various artists (Moviescore Media)
- 2008 - Mothertongue (Bedroom Community HVALUR5CD)
(Includes Mothertongue I: Archive; Mothertongue II:
Shower; Mothertongue III: Hress; Mothertongue IV:
Monster; Wonders: I. New Things & New Tidings
"Wonders: II. The Devil Appear’d in the Shape of a Man" ;
"Wonders: III. A Complaint against Thomas Weelkes"; "The Only Tune:
I. The Two Sisters"; "The Only Tune: II. The Old Mill Pond"; and
The Only Tune: III. The Only Tune)
- 2009 - The Reader (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
by various artists (Lakeshore Records)
- 2009 - "So Far Around The Bend" by The National
References
- ^ Nico Muhly
Biography, http://nicomuhly.com/biography/
- ^ a
b
c
Richards, Charlie. Boy Wonder "The Advocate,
2008-08-12" Retrieved on 2008-10-13 from advocate.com
- ^ Muhly, Nico. "Choral sex," The Guardian,
April 27, 2007. Retrieved from Guardian.co.uk on 2 March 2008
- ^ a
b
Davies, Lucie (August
20-27, 2008), "Nico Muhly", Now
(Toronto Now Magazine): Vol 27 Number 51, http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/discs.cfm?content=164525, retrieved
2009-05-22
- ^
Muhly, Nico
(2009-03-01), The Latest News, Nico Muhly, http://nicomuhly.com/, retrieved
2009-03-05
- ^
Wakin, Daniel
(2008-08-27), "Pop Singer Drops Plan to
Compose for the Met", New York Times: E1, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/arts/music/28rufu.html, retrieved
2008-10-13
- ^
Los Angeles Chamber
Orchestra program notes, Laco.org
- ^
Nico Muhly: Honest Music
- ^
Wood, Mikael
(2009-01-20), "Review: Antony and the
Johnsons' The Crying Light", Boston Phoenix, http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/75338-CRYING-LIGHT/
External
links
- Tim Page, "High Scorer," Smithsonian Magazine,
October 2007. Retrieved on 2 March 2008.
- Andy Beta, "Of Transgendered Violas and
Transatlanic Collaborators," City Pages, Issue:
September 26, 2007, retrieved on 2 March 2008.
- Rebecca Mead, "Eerily Composed: Nico
Muhly’s sonic magic," The New Yorker, February 11, 2008,
retrieved on 2 March 2008.
- Molly Sheridan, "Composer on Fire: Defining
Nico Muhly" (includes video), NewMusicBox, March 1, 2007, retrieved
on 2 March 2008.
- Nico Muhly, 'Walls come tumbling
down," The Guardian, October 5, 2007. Retrieved from
Guardian.co.uk on 2 March 2008.
- List of published scores,
Chester Music and Novello & Company, retrieved on 2 March
2008.
- Michaels, Sean (October 2008).
"Nico Muhly [interview]". The Believer
6 (8): 72–77.
- Official Web Site
- Myspace Page
- Nico Muhly on Brassland
Records
- Nico Muhly at Now
magazine
- Nico Muhly Bio
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