Nicholas Morrish

Nicholas Morrish is a composer-electronic musician based in Berlin.

His solo electronic practice embraces synthesis as a tool for speculative worldbuilding in which uncanny renderings of acoustic bodies encounter synthetic figures of opaque origin. Recently, his project Belly and Other Members was nominated in the electronic music category at Forecast 10. Performances have been given at Radialsystem, Gaswerk Music Days, Forecast Festival and Naxos Hallenkonzerte among others.

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), HCMF (UK), Rainy Days (LUX), Gaudeamus (NL), Noon to Midnight / LA Phil (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 have led to music theatre/concert-installation commissions from the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Musikverein Wien, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and Musiktheatertage Wien/Kollektiv Spitzwegerich. 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.

Nick’s residency at EMS is supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU, implemented by the Goethe-Institut.