COMPOSER / ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN
PROFILE
Nicholas Morrish is a composer, electronic musician, arranger, producer and performer—insofar as these are separate things.
His practice moves regularly between electronic, concert, installative and staged formats, and has been performed and commissioned internationally by leading ensembles and organisations at festivals worldwide.
His solo electronic practice approaches synthesis as a means of imagining how sound might behave, unfold and relate—a tool for speculative soundworld building, in which uncanny renderings of organic bodies encounter synthetic figures of opaque origin.
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 electroacoustic 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, Momi Maiga / Ensemble Resonanz and Erwan Keravec, among others.
Festival and venue appearances include MaerzMusik, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Rainy Days, Gaudeamus, Noon to Midnight / LA Phil, MATA, Manifeste, Elbphilharmonie and Impuls.
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.
Die Erde über mir, with Münchener Kammerorchester and Schauburg, was nominated for the Faust Prize in 2024. Installations have been presented across Europe and Asia, including at the Al Wasl Dome, MONOM and Himmel unter Berlin, in collaboration with 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.
