Nicholas Morrish is a composer-electronic musician based in Berlin, working across recorded, concert, installation, multimedia, and staged contexts.

⇥ His solo electronic practice embraces synthesis as a tool for speculative soundworld building, in which uncanny renderings of organic bodies encounter synthetic figures of opaque origin. These are assembled to test thresholds between constructed form and emergent behaviour, drawing on haptic, algorithmic, and nonlinear approaches to sound generation. 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, with recent performances at Radialsystem, Gaswerk Music Days, Naxos Hallenkonzerte and Forecast Festival.

⇥ His concert work spans (electro)acoustic ensemble pieces, collaborations with improvising musicians, and multimedia projects, with performances by the London Symphony Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble / LA Phil, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Münchener Kammerorchester, and Erwan Keravec, 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 and 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 collection of electronic works for release (2026), a site-specific concert installation for the Wasserturm Favoriten (Vienna), and new electroacoustic concert and staged works developed from his studio in East Berlin.