COMPOSITIONS

Stretch all thy powers; call if you can Harps of heaven to hands of man (Richard Crashaw)

 

"The highlight for me was In Tenebris.  Hardy paints a wonderful picture with his writing, but it has now been given a fourth dimension.  I'm hooked on singing it .. more, please!" - Occam Singer

"O'Neill's Ave Verum Corpus is tense and gripping...great intensity" - Musicalpointers.com

As a composer, Nick's work has been performed across Europe. Starting at the age of eight and receiving his first public performance in Gloucester Cathedral a few years later, where he was a chorister, Nick continued composing through school and university days. In his final weeks at Magdalen he was unanimously awarded first prize in the Norwich Festival of Contemporary Church Music Composition Competition for his Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis on E. The following year Quartet In Three Movements for saxophone quartet was awarded the Young Composers' Award at the Gregynog Festival. In 1995 Ave Verum, now released by Hyperion (Children Of Our Time - CDA67575), shared the Barbara Johnstone Prize, while other works have been shortisted for the Oare String Orchestra, Purcell, Cornelius Cardew and William Mathias Composition Awards.

Commissions have included riverunstill for the 50th anniversary of the Hill Singers, The Clocks Of Cassiodorus for Kingston Choral Society, and the In Tenebris trilogy for the Occam Singers, while Domine, Refugium, originally commissioned for the millennium eve service at Christ Church, Hampstead, has been performed in Hungary, Germany and Slovakia, having been added to the repertoire of the St Cecilia Choir of Kosice.

Instumental works include shadowdance and Fraction for solo guitar, currently in line to be recorded for Naxos records by Graham Anthony Devine,  Apart At The Seams for string trio Veloce, and Craftsman And Willow and To The Darkside for harpsichordist Chau-Yee Lo, also in line for a recording. Nick is also active writing works for the musicians at St George's Cathedral in Southwark, where he is Organist.

To see a list of first performances, please click here

For a catalogue of Nick's compositions, click here

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