Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly (b. 1981) composes orchestral, chamber, and sacred music, operas, and scores for film, theatre and television and site-specific collaborations. He has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera (Two Boys and Marnie), Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic (including a concerto grosso), the Philharmonie de Paris (a concerto for two pianos for Katia and Marielle Labèque) and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he is composer-in-residence. He has collaborated with choreographers Kyle Abraham, Benjamin Millepied, and Justin Peck, and his vocal collaborators include Iestyn Davies, Renée Fleming, and Nicholas Phan. Among his concerti are works for violin (Pekka Kuusisto and Renaud Capuçon), viola (Nadia Sirota), trumpet (Tine Thing Helseth), organ (James McVinnie) and piano (Alexandre Tharaud). He’s been composer-in-residence at Christ Church, Oxford since 2026, and the same year saw single-composer releases from Magdalen College, Oxford, and The Tallis Scholars.