Nigel Morgan :: Composer

Nigel Morgan is a composer working at the heart of contemporary concert music in the UK. His current work-list of some 90 compositions includes many commissioned works in orchestral, chamber, vocal and digital media categories. In the 1980s as the Arts Council's Music Animateur for the East of England he began an association with new technology, recording and performance that has become a continuous thread in his creative output, most recently in project work with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the ILIOS Festival. His music consistently reflects innovative and original approaches to composition often enabling performers to make a deeper contribution to interpretation than is the norm in contemporary scores. His music celebrates and re-invents many of the aspects of Renaissance and Baroque music whilst integrating novel features of open-form and computer-aided algorithmic composition. He has been a co-developer of the Symbolic Composer software for Macintosh since 1990 and has recently joined the research team of the Future Music Lab at Plymouth University's Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research.

Detail from System Studies for guitar.

This is a comprehensive on-line archive of study scores, recordings, interpretation and analysis, texts and images associated with the creative work of Nigel Morgan between 1974 and 2007. Material available to download on this site is protected by Copyright Law but is made available specifically for non-commercial and educational purposes. This statement is made in the spirit of the guidelines surrounding the Creative Commons by-nc-cd licence, with the additional stipulation that these works should not be distributed through any third-party medium such as personal websites and online score libraries.