Nico Muhly

'A Hudson Cycle' was written as a wedding gift for two friends. This is music of longing and anticipation; losing a beautiful place approaching a beloved person.

Nico Muhly's Patterns is a work in four sections for solo Organ. Patterns was commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for the 2014 Biennial National Convention in Boston Massachusetts U.S.A.'Patterns is composed in four sections each of which is sort of a rhythmic étude. The first (?Move Along?) is a perpetual motion machine with staggered and angular rhythms thrown between the pedals and the left hand. The second movement (?Palindromes?) is calmer and is centered around an idée fixe in the left hand while the right hand interjects and ornaments. The pedals here are a clumsy cousin constantly upturning the sense of rhythmic stability. The third movement (?Similar?) is all to do with ways to divide up the bar: seven eight six five four ? it?s all there. Then the finale (?Very Fast Music?) is a perpetual motion machine on its highest setting ? manic and hyper with hiccoughs offsetting the regularity of some of the rhythms.' - Nico MuhlyStephen Farr in the September/October 2015 issue of Choir & Organ writes that this work is 'full of filigree figuration and no little rhythmic complexity.'

Nico Muhly is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger. You Can't Get There From Here is no exception to Nico's beautiful and accomplished style of writing.The work was commissioned by the Terez n Music Foundation as a living memorial to the composers and musicians of the Terez n concentration camp who perished during the Holocaust.

Prelude On Lasst Uns Erfreuen is a work by renowned contemporary composer Nico Muhly for Organ. Lasting around 6 minutes it was composed in 2007. The composition was dedicated to Alison Shafer commemorating 25 years of service for Christian Lane and the Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ Frederick Maryland. In the September/October 2015 issue of Choir & Organ Stephen Farr writes that this work 'applies a variety of motivic treatments and a corresponding variety of rhythmic twists to the well-known melody...would be effective in either concert or liturgicalcontexts'.

Nico Muhly's Drones & Piano is a fascinating and thrilling piece for Piano and Pre-recorded elements composed for pianist Bruce Brubaker. Drones And Piano was commissioned by the 2010 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival for pianist Bruce Brubaker. The piece involves staccato stabs dynamic discords and an innovative beauty that always shines through. The work was composed for Drones And Piano meaning that each movement begins with a pre-recorded drone that underlies the rest of the movement. This allows for a certain degree of improvisation in the tempo and the rests which can give an element ofunpredictability to each performance. To obtain the pre-recorded sounds for your own performances of Nico Muhly's engrossing and hypnotic Drones & Piano  contact the publisher at promotion@musicsales.co.uk

Nico Muhly’s prelude for his friend the Rev'd James Mustard features slow-moving harmonies with a breathy warmth but it’s through a sparkling crystalline pane of arpeggios. Nico Muhly has an almost incomparable understanding of the capabilities of the Pipe Organ as a musical instrument but also an equally deep understanding of and even affection for its limitations making his Organ pieces extremely unique.

Nico Muhly's Perpetual Motion for Solo Piano. Commissioned by Marley Blue Lewis for her father Daniel on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Duration: 5 minutes