Dennis Kim (violin), Jonah Kim (cello), Sheridan Seyfried (piano). Recorded 3 August 2013, Maine USA.

Surface II (for violin, cello & piano)

Commissioned by 4MBS for 'Opus 5', Ensemble-in-Residence for the 2021 Festival of Classics.

Recorded at 4MBS Studios in 2021.
Performed by Opus 5.
Sound Engineer - Jai Farrell.

Invocation

'Vector' was commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part of The ANAM Set (2021. It was written for William Kinmont and given its world premiere on 12 October 2021 at the Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne. 

The ANAM Set was funded by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative.

Trombone: William Kinmont
Producer: Duncan Yardley
Engineer: Russell Thomson

Vector

[Excerpt] Present, Past, Future. 
Movt II (from Figure Q to end) & III (beginning to Figure D)
Queensland Youth Symphony - Dir. Simon Hewett

[Excerpt] Present, Past, Future

Isa (Movement I) for classical guitar duo. Recorded 27 June 2014 at Norfolk Yale Chamber Music Festival. Performed by Jordan Dodson & Trevor Babb. 


Isa (Movement I)

Isa (Movement II) for classical guitar duo. Recorded 27 June 2014 at Norfolk Yale Chamber Music Festival. Performed by Jordan Dodson & Trevor Babb. 


Isa Movement II

Recorded 27 June 2014 at Norfolk Yale Chamber Music Festival. Performed by David Perry (clarinet/bass clarinet), Solomon Silber (electric guitar), Jeff Stern (percussion), Miki Sawada (piano), Ilana Waniuk (violin), Samuel Suggs (double bass). Conducted by Julian Pellicano.

Stolen (2014 version)

Excerpt from the premiere of 'She Says' for cello and piano. Performed by Yotam Baruch (cello) and Tali Morgulis (piano) in Jaffa (Israel), 27 April 2017.

She Says (excerpt)

For flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin & cello. 
Performed by Ars Nova Dallas at the Dallas Festival of Modern Music 2011.
Wayla Chambo (flute), Jonathan Jones (clarinet), Reuben Allred (piano), Leah Greenfield (violin), Greg White (percussion), Zack Reaves (cello), Jordan Randall Smith (conductor).

Untangled (2011)

For flute, clarinet, piano, violin & cello. 

Commissioned and premiered by Wild Rumpus November 10, 2013, at Community Music Center, San Francisco. Performers: Amy Sedan, flute; Sophie Huet, clarinet; Margaret Halbig, piano; Christy Kyong, violin; Joanne DeMars, violoncello.

Program Note:
That bridge was a construction of regret, the architecture of longing, over a river of melancholy.
— Richard James Allen, The Kamikaze Mind

Bridge

Nicole Murphy’s music has been described as “exquisite and sensitive” (Sydney Morning Herald), “strong and compelling” (Loudmouth) and “full of exhilarating tension” (Arts Knoxville). She has been commissioned by eminent arts organisations including the Australian Ballet, the Royal Academy of Dance (London), the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Experiments in Opera/Symphony Space (New York), Orchestra Victoria, Wild Rumpus (San Francisco), Chamber Sounds (Singapore), and the Definiens Project (Los Angeles). Her music has been performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, NOWensemble, Ars Nova Dallas, and Halcyon (Sydney), and has been programmed at numerous festivals, including the Norfolk/Yale Chamber Music Festival, the Dallas Festival of Modern Music, the Nief Norf Festival, the Risuonanze Festival (Italy), and the Vox Feminae Festival (Tel Aviv). 

Nicole is the recipient of various awards, including the inaugural Layton Composer Fellowship at the University of NSW (2018), Ensemble Offspring’s Noisy Women Commission (2019), the MAFB International Commissioning Prize (2015), and the Theodore Front International Orchestral Prize (2013). Nicole was a Composer Fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s ‘Intimacy of Creativity’ program (2018) and a Resident Composer at the Mizzou International Composers Festival (2019). Her piano trio, Spinning Top, was included on ABC Classic 2019 release, ‘Women of Note: A Century of Australian Music’. 

Nicole is the Composer-in-Residence at the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries and teaches composition at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University. She holds a PhD from the University of Queensland. She is represented by the Australian Music Centre and her music is published by Wirripang.

Nicole Murphy

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