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Longtime friends and collaborators Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman) and Nico Muhly released a new album, Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music, May 18, 2018, on Nonesuch Records. Peter Pears comprises nine songs written by the duo plus three gamelan transcriptions by ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee that inspired the songs. Bartlett and Muhly perform the Peter Pears music […]

17 track solar system-inspired collaborative album from Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, and James Mcalister.

Nonesuch Records releases Confessions, a collaboration between the acclaimed American composer Nico Muhly and the Faroese singer/songwriter Teitur, on October 21, 2016; the vinyl edition is due November 4. The two musicians began work on the project when Muhly was composer-in-residence at Muziekgebouw Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The songs’ lyrics were inspired by or culled […]

Object Songs (2014) are a collaboration with illustrator and author Maira Kalman, a longtime friend and source of constant inspiration and delight. These songs are a response to a room Maira curated in New York’s Cooper Hewitt Museum, as well as two books she wrote about the objects she chose to be in the room. […]

Nonesuch releases Nico Muhly’s opera Two Boys—recorded live during the Metropolitan Opera’s 2013 production with conductor David Robertson and director Bartlett Sher—on September 30, 2014. The two-act opera, which features a libretto by award-winning playwright Craig Lucas, is loosely based on true events and follows a lonely detective whose investigation of a seemingly simple crime […]

Drones & Violin was written for Pekka Kuusisto, and was commissioned by the Muziekgebouw, Eindhoven. Each movement begins with either the piano or violin establishing a drone which lasts for the duration of the movement. The first bar of each movement can be quite long. The drone should remain loosely indifferent to the other part, […]

Drones & Viola consists of four tracks and was recorded by Paul Evans at the Greenhouse Studios in Iceland and produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson. Performing Drones & Viola is long-time Bedroom Community collaborator Nadia Sirota with Bruce Brubaker on piano.

I started writing the Drones pieces as a method of developing harmonic ideas over a static structure. The idea is something not unlike singing along with one’s vacuum cleaner, or with the subtle but constant humming found in most dwelling-places. We surround ourselves with constant noise, and the Drones pieces are an attempt to honor […]

I Drink the Air Before Me is an evening-length score for Stephen Petronio’s dance piece bearing the same name. Inasmuch as it was celebrating Stephen’s company’s 25th anniversary, the piece wanted to be big, ecstatic, and celebratory.

Mothertongue/Wonders/The Only Tune

Abby Fischer, Helgi Hrafn Jónsson, Sam Amidon, voices

Produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson at Greenhouse Studios

Speaks Volumes, the first release on Bedroom Community, features seven pieces of chamber music for small ensemble with electronics. This album was created with Valgeir Sigurðsson in Reykjavík, and in New York, Nico’s hometown.