Nick Morrish Rarity

Nick is a composer, and doctoral candidate at the Royal College of Music, where he is supported by the Douglas & Hilda Symonds Award, and is supervised by Jonathan Cole, Simon Holt and Gilbert Nuono. Prior to this, he studied composition with Robert Saxton at the University of Oxford, where he won a Jesus College prize for academic achievement, and as a TCL scholar at Trinity Laban with Deirdre Gribbin, Paul Newland and Gwyn Pritchard, where he won the MMus prize, and the Elias Fawcett Prize for Composition. He has also received informal compositional advice from Toshio Hosokawa.

2013 saw the premier of his violin concerto, Psyche, written for Clarice Rarity, and a piece for the LCO’s Inspired by Digital Scheme, which culminated in a performance at Cadogan Hall. In 2014, Nick was commissioned by Gestalt Arts as a prize winner to write a chamber opera, A Sign in Space. Nick was a winner of the 2014 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, and wrote Abandonment & Ruin for BSO’s Kokoro, which was premiered at Cheltenham Festival and was described as being ‘a telling and impressively individual composition’. Nick is a winner of Sound and Music’s Portfolio Scheme, in collaboration with Mu:Arts and Royal Holloway University to write a piece for Noh musicians and ensemble, to be performed at Kings Place in May 2016. His research interests include exploring ecological approaches to compositionparticularly the way in which sounds specify discrete virtual sources in time and space, notions of the artist as cartographer, the materiality of sound production (high fidelity/low fidelity), and the application of object-oriented ontologies to composition

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