1. Nico Asher Muhly is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger who has worked and recorded with both classical and pop musicians.
13 Facts About Nico Muhly
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Nico Muhly is a member of the Icelandic music collective and record label Bedroom Community.
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Nico Muhly was raised in Providence, Rhode Island, and sang in the choir at Grace Episcopal Church in Providence.
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Nico Muhly went on to study at the Wheeler School in Providence.
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Nico Muhly graduated from the former in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and received a Master's degree in music in 2004 from Juilliard, where he studied composition with John Corigliano and Christopher Rouse.
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Nico Muhly worked in collaboration with Bjork on the DVD single "Oceania" in 2004; in 2005, he was commissioned by Colorado Academy, a private school in Colorado, to write a song for the opening of their Fine Arts building.
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In 2009, Nico Muhly did choral and string quartet arrangements for four of the songs on Brooklyn-based indie rock band Grizzly Bear's third album, Veckatimest, and he worked with Antony and the Johnsons on the albums The Crying Light and Swanlights.
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Nico Muhly worked on two commissions for the UK-based Britten Sinfonia, performed in January and February 2010.
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However, in a 2008 interview with The Advocate, Nico Muhly stated that the opera is based on the true story of an online friendship between two male teenagers, one of whom stabs the other.
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Nico Muhly contributed to the 2018 re-recording of David Bowie's 1987 album Never Let Me Down.
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Nico Muhly composed the musical score for the Paris Opera Ballet's production of Clear, Loud, Bright, Forward choreographed by Benjamin Millepied.
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In 2020 Nico Muhly completed a "virtual premiere" for the San Francisco Symphony during the COVID-19 pandemic, titled Throughline.
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Nico Muhly composed and recorded Trombone Phrases for Sound World's Coronavirus Fund for Freelance Musicians, a project supporting struggling musicians during the UK's COVID-19 lockdown.