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.
In 2025 he founded Flung, a record label for contemporary music and sound, with initial releases on CD and cassette by British composers Benjamin Tassie, Theo Alexander, Isabella Gellis, and Eden Lonsdale.
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 holds a DPhil in Music (Composition) from the University of Oxford, which was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Doctoral Training Partnership, and supervised by Professor Martyn Harry and Professor Jonathan Cross. His research investigated the relationships between aesthetics, technology, composition, and collaboration in the context of live electronic music, and included a dissertation on Luigi Nono's late electronic works at the SWR Experimentalstudio Freiburg. He previously ran the EXPO series for experimental music in Oxford together with Jonathan Packham, producing public concerts and workshops on topics including AI, VR, and Spatialisation.
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