Nico Muhly

尼可·穆利是一位年少成名，游走于古典和流行之間作曲家、鋼琴家。成長在一個藝術(shù)氣息濃厚的家庭，母親是畫家，父親是紀(jì)錄片工作者，從小就接觸到世界各地的文化，另外作為一名別人常常另眼相看的“同性戀男孩”長大對穆利之后的音樂風(fēng)格也有很大影響。他曾在哥倫比亞大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)英文文學(xué)和阿拉伯語，還是著名的茱莉亞音樂學(xué)院碩士畢業(yè)生。不到三十歲的他已經(jīng)得到在美國芭蕾劇團、波士頓管弦樂團、芝加哥交響樂團、克萊爾學(xué)院合唱團創(chuàng)作和表演的機會，作品曾在紐約卡內(nèi)基音樂廳、美國惠特尼藝術(shù)博物館等音樂圣地首演。他與作曲家、配樂大師菲利普·格拉斯有過密切合作并深深受其影響，還因為精湛的鋼琴和鋼片琴演奏技巧，為女歌手比約克的專輯《Medúlla》負(fù)責(zé)鍵盤和編曲，06年他更比約克御用制作人 Valgeir Sigurosson新創(chuàng)的廠牌Bedroom Community 旗下發(fā)行了個人首張古典音樂專輯。2008年他取代了大名鼎鼎的阿爾貝托·伊格萊西亞斯為史蒂芬·戴德利執(zhí)導(dǎo)的《朗讀者》一片創(chuàng)作主題配樂。他與電影的緣分是從2002年同一導(dǎo)演的《時時刻刻》開始的，菲利普·格拉斯當(dāng)時憑借該片得到了奧斯卡原創(chuàng)音樂的提名。他還與格拉斯合作過《丑聞筆記》的配樂。
 
Born in Vermont in 1981 and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Nico Muhly graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a degree in English Literature. In 2004 he received a Masters in Music from the Juilliard School, where he studied composition under Christopher Rouse and John Corigliano.
 
Muhly’s orchestral works have been premiered by the American Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Orchestra (It Remains to Be Seen , a commission celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2006), the Boston Pops (Wish You Were Here, 2007), and the Chicago Symphony (Step Team, in 2007).
 
In 2005, the Clare College Choir broadcast Muhly’s evensong canticles live on BBC3, and New York’s Saint Thomas Church commissioned and performed his Bright Mass with Canons, a work that has entered their regular repertoire. With designer/illustrator Maira Kalman, he created the &finely wrought& (New York Times) cantata on Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style that premiered in the New York Public Library, landing him on 2005 year’s-best list of New York magazine.
 
Film credits include his scores for Choking Man (2006) and Joshua (2007), and he has worked extensively with Philip Glass as editor, keyboardist, and conductor for numerous film and stage projects. Recently, he conducted excerpts from Einstein on the Beach for a new ballet by Benjamin Millepied at the Opéra de Paris. In October, 2007, the American Ballet Theater premiered Muhly and Millepied’s collaboration From Here On Out, a commission for their 2007-2008 season, and in October of 2008, the Paris Opéra ballet will premiere Triade, a newly commissioned collaboration between Muhly and Millepied.
 
He has also lent his skills as performer, arranger and conductor to other musicians, including Björk (Medúlla, Drawing Restraint 9, Volta), Bonnie &Prince& Billy (The Letting Go), and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. His work with Antony has included performances in Arnhem, Leeds, and New York City, and in February 2007, they worked together on a new Shakespeare setting for The Sonnet Project, a program curated by Gavin Bryars for Opera North and the Royal Shakespeare Company. 2008 saw the release of such collaborations as Ekvílibríum, the highly anticipated solo debut of Icelandic musician Valgeir Sigurðsson, and All Is Well by American folk singer Sam Amidon. Sigurðsson released both discs on his own Bedroom Community records, a label he inaugurated by producing Muhly’s first album, Speaks Volumes (2007). In the months leading up to Speaks Volumes’ American release, Muhly was invited to present concerts of his chamber music at both Carnegie Hall and the Whitney Museum. Future recording projects include a second solo record, titled Mothertongue.