Nico Muhly is a classical composer who is working really hard on bridging the gap between classical music and pop music. I’ll not gonna call him a wunderkind because I’m sure he’d hate that. He’s someone I’ve been bumping into a lot of times in the last two years because he did a lot of collaborations with artists like Björk, Rufus Wainwright and Bonnie “Prince” Billie. Last year he helped Antony with the arrangements on “The Crying Light”. He has also already released two albums on his own: “Nico Muhly Speaks Volumes” (2006) and “Mothertounge” (2008). And he’s on his way to become a well booked soundtrack composer since he did the soundtrack of “The Reader” with Kate Winslet last year. I actually couldn’t find many great videos featuring him to post here, but I found a longer interview with him on eastvillageboys.com. The third of the postet videos is a music video by Samamidon, a songwriter from New York I can really suggest, Muhly played the piano on his album and arranged the orchestra (I hope I’m not sounding too nerdy here).
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