Nick Storring

Nick Storring is a Toronto based composer, cellist and improviser with a wide palette of interests, ranging from warped dance music to electroacoustic music, experimental pop to chamber music, and even collaborations within various “non-Western” traditions. His broken-violin-based electronic piece Artifacts (I) won first place in the 2008 Jeux de Temps/ Times Play competition for emerging Canadian electroacoustic composers. and was subsequently heard at Festivals worldwide.  In 2011 he was the recipient of the Canadian Music Centre’s Toronto Emerging Composer award, which is providing funding to create a work in tribute to arranger Charles Stepney, and to some of his favourite Bollywood Music Directors of the 50?s to the 80?s.

He also participated in the Toronto-based Madawaska String Quartet’s Composers Workshop in 2009 and Arraymusic’s 2010 Young Composers Workshop, and the Quatuor Bozzini’s 2011 Composers’ Kitchen. His work from the former has subsequently been programmed by the Madawska Quartet for their upcoming season.

His work regularly accompanies theatre, film and intermedia projects.  Recently his score for the MT Space‘s the Last 15 Seconds travelled across Canada and the Middle East to positive reviews.   He also created the music and sound design for Tentacles, an iPhone-controlled ambient gaming environment which was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s Talk To Me Exhibit running Summer-Fall 2011.

Apart from making regular solo appearances with cello, voice and electronics, he also plays in Picastro (Polyvinyl Records), and Toronto-based Son Jarocho (Mexican folk music) group Café Con Pan. He has collaborated live and in the studio with Nadja, Sandro Perri, Daniel Johnston, Araz Salek, Laura Barrett, Rhys Chatham, Wyrd Visions, Andrew Timar, Castlemusic, Eddie Prévost, Diane Labrosse, and Damo Suzuki (of Can).