Dr Nicholas Moroz

MMus, DPhil

Composition professor

Composition professor (Electronic Music)

Dr Nicholas Moroz is a composer, producer, the artistic director of Explore Ensemble, and runs the record label Flung.

His music has been performed by musicians 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 hcmf//, De Doelen Rotterdam, Royaumont, Moscow Philharmonic, Aldeburgh Festival, St Magnus International Festival, Dartington, and the Royal Academy of Arts.

As the artistic director of Explore Ensemble he has commissioned dozens of new chamber works by UK and international artists, ranging from acoustic to live electronic and video pieces. Recent commissions include works by Joanna Bailie, Angharad Davies, Beatrice Dillon, Lawrence Dunn, Mark Fell, Nakul Krishnamurthy, Okkyung Lee, and Rebecca Salvadori. He has lead the ensemble across the UK and Europe at festivals and venues including hcmf//, No Bounds, Aldeburgh, Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, London Contemporary Music Festival, Louth Contemporary Music Society, Transit Leuven, ZKM Karlsruhe, and November Music. In 2022 Explore Ensemble received the internationally prestigious Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Ensemble Prize in recognition of its achievements.

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 launched Flung in 2025, 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.

As a musicologist, he has written about composers including Morton Feldman, Luigi Nono, and Fausto Romitelli, as well as the topic of spatialisation.

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Faculties / departments: Composition, Research