Nigel Morgan is a composer working at the heart of
contemporary concert music in the UK. His current
worklist
of some 90 compositions includes many commissioned works in orchestral,
chamber, vocal and digital media categories.
In the 1980s as the
Arts
Council's Music Animateur for the East of England he began an association
with new technology, recording and performance that has become a continuous
thread in his creative output, most recently in project work with the
BBC
National Orchestra of Wales and the
ILIOS
Festival. His music consistently reflects innovative and original
approaches to composition often enabling performers to make a deeper contribution
to interpretation than is the norm in contemporary scores. His music celebrates
and re-invents many of the aspects of Renaissance and Baroque music whilst
integrating novel features of open-form and computer-aided algorithmic
composition.
He has been a co-developer of the
Symbolic
Composer software for Macintosh since 1990 and is a member
the research team of the Future Music Lab at Plymouth University's
Interdisciplinary
Centre for Computer Music Research.