Nicholas Morrish is a composer-electronic musician based in Berlin, working across recorded, concert, installation, multimedia, and staged contexts.
⇥ His solo electronic practice focuses on synthetic renderings of human, nonhuman, and instrumental bodies which, when assembled, become sites of speculative social interaction. In 2025, his project Belly and Other Members was nominated in the electronic music category at Forecast 10, where he was mentored by Ata Ebtekar (Sote). In 2026, he is an Artist-in-Residence at Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm. His electronic work has been supported by the Goethe-Institut and PRS Foundation among others, with recent performances at Radialsystem, Gaswerk Music Days, and Naxos Hallenkonzerte.
⇥ His concert work has been commissioned and performed internationally by ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble / LA Phil, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and Münchener Kammerorchester, among others. Festival appearances include MaerzMusik (DE), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Rainy Days (LUX), Gaudeamus (NL), Noon to Midnight / LA Phil (USA), MATA (USA), Manifeste (FR), and Impuls (AUT). Notable distinctions include the Mendelssohn Scholarship (2018–2020), a Gaudeamus Award nomination (2019), and the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize (2014).
⇥ Ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations - such as with director and dramaturg Anselm Dalferth - have led to music theatre and concert-installation commissions from the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Musikverein Wien, Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Musiktheatertage Wien/Kollektiv Spitzwegerich. Their work Die Erde über mir (with Münchener Kammerorchester/Schauburg) was nominated for the Faust Prize (2024) and described as an “outstanding cross-genre music theatre production.” Installations have been presented internationally across Europe and Asia, including at the Al Wasl Dome (Dubai), MONOM, and Himmel unter Berlin, in collaboration with groups such as phase7 performing.arts, Kling Klang Klong, and Das Dur.
⇥ A former Fellow at Harvard University Music Department (2018–2019), Nick holds a doctorate from the Royal College of Music and previously studied at the University of Oxford and Trinity Laban. He has lectured and presented across Europe and the United States.
⇥ Current projects include a debut full-length electronic album (2026), a site specific concert installation for the Wasserturm Favoriten Wien, and new concert works developed from his studio in East Berlin.