About this Artist

Nicholas Morrish is a composer working in sound, electronics, and video.

Recent work has focused on sonic media, raw states of matter, and the integration of concrete sounds within resonant structures.

Pieces have been made for the London Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, United Instruments of Lucilin, Schallfeld, Nikel, Catchpenny, Divertimento, the Philharmonia, Workers Union, Kokoro, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the London Chamber Orchestra amongst many others.

He is the joint holder of the Mendelssohn Scholarship (2018-20) and a Gaudeamus Award 2019 nominee and will also hold a Styria Artist-in-Residence Scholarship in 2019. Prizes have also been awarded by LSO Soundhub, the RSNO Composer’s Hub, the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, Sound and Music’s New Voices, New Dots, and Inspired by Digital.

Nicholas is a fellow at the Harvard University Music Department, where his work is supervised by Chaya Czernowin. He is also a doctoral candidate at the Royal College of Music, where he works with Jonathan Cole. Prior to this, he studied at Oxford University and Trinity Laban, where he won multiple awards. He was a member of the professorial staff at Trinity Laban in 2017/18 and was a graduate teaching assistant at the RCM from 2016 to 2018.