Nicholas Moroz is a composer based in London making acoustic and electronic music.
He is the artistic director of Explore Ensemble, a contemporary music group specialising in chamber and live electronic music, which he co-founded in 2012, and which performs throughout the UK and Europe, while regularly releasing new records.
He is currently completing an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded DPhil in Music (Composition) degree at the University of Oxford, where his research involves composition with acoustic instruments and live electronics. His musicological thesis investigates the relationships between technology, aesthetics, and collaborative work in Luigi Nono’s live electronic music with the Experimentalstudio Freiburg.
His music has been performed by musicians and groups including the GBSR Duo, trombonist Sebastiaan Kemner, Explore Ensemble, Lonelinoise, Silbersee, Residentie Orkest, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, ensemble recherche, and the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, at venues and festivals such as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, De Doelen Rotterdam, Abbaye de Royaumont, Moscow Philharmonic, Aldeburgh Festival, St Magnus International Festival, Dartington, EXPO Oxford, and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Also active as a producer and recording engineer, Nicholas has contributed to several records as engineer and/or producer, including Beatrice Dillon’s ‘Seven Reorganisations’ as part of her new label, HI, Lisa Illean’s critically acclaimed 2024 album ‘arcing, stilling, bending, gathering’ on NMC, Explore Ensemble’s 2023 albums ‘Parallaxis Forma’ on Another Timbre and ‘Perfect Offering’ on HCR, and others including Jack Sheen’s ‘Croon Harvest’ on The Trilogy Tapes.
Nicholas teaches composition and electronic music at the Royal College of Music, among other topics including classical sound recording, and music and the environment.
Photo: Francesca Spencer