Nickel—List of Works + Performances

Luke Nickel List of Selected Works (2010-present) Please inquire for list of older works (2005-2010)

Large Ensemble: 7+ Instruments Dive Deep in Blue, My Sweet (2019) for flute, clarinet in Bb, violin, cello, percussion, piano, conductor, theremin, tape, and video written for Continuum as part of the CLC’s PIVOT program​ ​10 minutes ● Premiered March 30, 2019 in Toronto, ON at the Music Gallery

Aaadagio (2017) for string orchestra written for the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra​ with support from the Manitoba Arts Council ​10 minutes ● Premiered on April 26, 2017 in Winnipeg Manitoba

Smokescreen (living score) (2015) for percussion quartet and SATB choir written for Architek and Viva Voce​ with support from the Canada Council for the Arts ​12 minutes ● Premiered on January 17, 2016 in Montreal at Salle Bourgie ● Performed on April 4, 2016 in Montreal at Salla Rossa

Whole Beauty Now Lies in Memory (2012) for wind ensemble and solo vocalist written for the McGill Schulich School of Music Wind Symphony dir. Alain Cazes 2012-2013 11:00 ● Premiered February 19, 2013 in Montreal at Pollack Hall

L’etoile noyée (2008) for orchestra written in conjunction with the ACI mentorship program​ ​5:30 ● Premiered by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra on February 3, 2011 at the Winnipeg New Music Festival

Chamber Ensemble: 3-7 Instruments Moonriver32 (2018) for unspecified chamber ensemble, solo voice, and video written for TAK Ensemble​ with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, ​6 minutes ● Premiered on March 1, 2019 in Winnipeg, Manitoba

String Trio #1 (2019)

Luke Nickel List of Selected Works (2010-present) for three speaking performers written for the Parkinson/Saunders Duo​, ​10 minutes ● Premiered October 30, 2018 in Bergen, Norway at the Borealis Listening Club ● Performed 3 more times in Norway as part of a cross-country tour

Who’s Exploiting Who (living score) (2016) for unspecified chamber ensemble written for the Thin Edge New Music Collective ​10 minutes ● Premiered on February 13, 2016 in Toronto at ArraySpace

White fang field recording (2015) for four speaking performers ​open duration ● Premiered on June 3, 2015 in Bristol UK at Bang the Bore ● Performed on November 11, 2015 in Bristol UK at Sanctum

String Quartet #1 (2015) for four speaking performers written for a residency at Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, UK ​13 minutes ● Premiered on April 25, 2015 in Bristol UK at Arnolfini ● Performed on December 5, 2015 in San Francisco at ccrma ● Performed on March 19, 2016 in Winnipeg at the Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival ● Performed on July 28, 2016 at Darmstadt ● Performed on August 12, 2016 in Winnipeg, MB at AceArt

The Strange Eating Habits of Erik Satie (living score) (2014/15) for SATB choir written for EXAUDI as a part of Sound and Music’s Portfolio Scheme 2014/15 ​open duration, living score ● Premiered on October 17, 2015 in London UK at The Warehouse

Made of my Mother’s Cravings (living score) (2014) for string quartet written for the Bozzini Quartet​ ​open ● Premiered on June 17, 2014 in Montreal at Composer’s Kitchen ● Performed on November 28, 2014 in Huddersfield UK at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Kyrie (2013) for SATB choir written for Groundswell and Canzona 7 ​ :30

Luke Nickel List of Selected Works (2010-present) ●

Premiered on March 2, 2014 in Winnipeg at GroundSwell

Révolutions d’orphee (2013) for unspecified chamber ensemble written for Ensemble Paramirabo 8 ​ :00 ● Premiered on May 29, 2013 in Montreal at the Conservatoire ● Performed in June 2013 at the Montreal Contemporary Music Lab

Ophiuchus Rising Prologue and Scene 1 (2011) for 3 voices and percussion ​20:00 ● Premiered on March 8, 2012 in Winnipeg at the Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival

ZAPDOS (2011) for Violin, Cello, Piano, and Percussion written for the Arraymusic Young Composers’ Workshop ​13:00 ● Premiered May 29, 2011 in Toronto at the Arrayspace

Kumiko (2010) for flute, clarinet in Bb, violin, cello, piano and vibraphone, ​written for the University of Manitoba/Eighth Blackbird Reading Session, 2010 ​10:00 ● Performed by Ensemble Paramirabo in Montreal on April 5, 2012 at Café L’artere ● Performed by Ensemble Paramirabo in Montreal on May 5, 2012 at Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur

Solos and Duos A Hushed Workshop (2018) for bass clarinet written for Heather Roche,​ 1 ​ 5 minutes ● Recorded by Simon Reynell (Another Timbre, UK) for MusicWorks Magazine Winter 2018 Issue

Transcribing (2017) for two typing performers written for the Parkinson/Saunders Duo​ ​open duration ● Premiered on October 14, 2017 in London, UK as part of BBC’s Hear and Now program

Oshima (living score) (2017) for solo piano written for Everett Hopfner​ ​15 minutes ● Premiered on March 12, 2017 at the Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival

Luke Nickel List of Selected Works (2010-present)

A second is a second isn’t a second (2014) installation ​open duration ● Presented on June 5, 2014 in New York at the Panoply Performance Laboratory

[Factory] (living score) (2014) for open instrumentation written for Mira Benjamin​ ​open duration ● Premiered by Mira Benjamin on March 6, 2014 in Winnipeg at the Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival ● Performed by Mira Benjamin and Isaiah Ceccarelli on August 7, 2014 in Oslo Norway at NyMusikk ● Performed by Michael Baldwin on July 4, 2015 at Weisslich One Hundred Years Gallery

Duet: Multivariants (graphic score) (2013) for two instruments written for the Harrington/Loewen saxophone/piano duo o ​ pen dur. ● Premiered on August 25, 2013 in Winnipeg MB at the Pressurewaves competition

Crossfade piece: after James Tenney (text score) (2013) written for Ryan Packard​ ​open dur ● Premiered May 1, 2013 in Montreal at Redpath Hall ● Performed July 8, 2013 at Oberlin Conservatory

Reorganization (text score) (2012) for unspecified instrument written for Sarah Albu o ​ pen ● Premiered by Sarah Albu on November 3, 2012 in Montreal at Innovations en Concert ● Performed by Sarah Albu on tour across eastern Canada, May 2012 ● Performed by Mira Benjamin on January 20, 2013 at Salla Rossa

Kirin (2010) for alto sax and piano commissioned by the Loewen/Harrington duo​ ​8:00 ● Premiered October 7, 2010 in Winnipeg at the University of Manitoba

Turtles Don’t Smile (2009) for MalletKAT, computer processing, and dancer ​10:00 ● Premiered by Jamie Pham on March 10, 2010 in Winnipeg at the Cluster: new Music + Integrated Arts Festival ● Performed by Rick Sacks on January 14, 2012 in Toronto at ArraySpce