Compositions

Orchestra

To take the edge off(2024) • 12 minutes

Packingtown sketches (2023) • 9 minutes

Tranquillo/Agitato (Kodaly/Nichols) (2023) • 8 minutes
1. Tranquillo (Zoltan Kodaly, orch. Aaron Nichols)
2. Agitato

Symphonyn’t (2022) • 38 minutes

A Modal Symphony (2021) - 30 minutes

What is Not a Dream by Day (2020) - 46 minutes

Large Ensemble

Towards Utnapishtim (violin concerto) (2026)
solo violin/chamber orchestra • 23 minutes

Passacaglia: Why Did the Chicken (2025)
chamber orchestra/sinfonietta • 10 minutes

Overstimulations (2023)
string quintet/percussion/live electronics • 17 minutes

Nachtmusik V: online edition (2022)
flute/clarinet/trumpet/trombone/percussion/violin/viola/cello • 10 minutes

Is it hot in here (2022)
free ensemble/graphic score • 6 minutes

As the city sleeps (2021)
flute/oboe/horn/trumpet/percussion/piano/2 violins/viola/cello • 12 minutes

No Strangers to Love (2021)
piano/percussion/bass guitar (doubling upright)/string sextet • 9 minutes

Don’t get blue! Get angry! (2019)
chamber orchestra • 6 minutes

A troubled day’s night (2019)
oboe/trumpet/trombone/percussion/violin/viola/cello/bass • 9 minutes

Chamber

Suite for Recorder and Bass Viol (2026)
22 minutes

And Still the Steeples Hum(2025)
clarinet, violin, piano – for unheard-of ensemble • 10 minutes

Les Ondines de la Crue Éclair (2025)
harp/cello • 10 minutes

Things Base and Vile (2025)
baroque violin/bass viol • 6 minutes

Mesovortex(2024)
saxophone quartet – for PRISM quartet • 7-8 minutes

Sisyphean Dances (2023)
clarinet/horn/violin/cello/percussion • 8-9 minutes

Murmeltier-Variationen (2023)
clarinet/contrabass/piano • 10 minutes

That Bumpy Road to Love (2023)
piano quintet • 17 minutes

Suite Tooth (2023)
guitar duo • 18 minutes

Flashing Before your Eyes (2022)
violin/2 cellos/contrabass • 3 minutes

Where Everything is Easy (2022)
horn+voice, bassoon, cello, and piano • 6-7 minutes

On a scale of 1-10… (2022)
electric guitar and cello •5 minutes

Vocalise: out on the side of the hill (2021)
soprano/oboe/violin/cello • 6-7 minutes

(Com)pulse (2021)
smalljazz ensemble • 6 minutes

Black and Blue (2020)
string quartet • 6 minutes

The End of Light (2020)
2 trumpets/2 horns/2 trombones/tuba/percussion • 7 minutes

Solitudine 19’ (2020)
wind quintet • 13 minutes

Wonderful Town (2020)
string quartet • 19 minutes

Seven Ages (2019)
2 trumpets/trombone/bass trombone • 9 minutes

Choir/Vocal

Five Poems (2026)
Text by Toni Morrison:
1. Eve Remembering
2. The Perfect Ease of Grain
3. Someone Leans Near
4. It Comes Unadorned
5. I Am Not Seaworthy
choir and orchestra • 45 minutes

It’s Raining 2 (2024)
Text by Scott Walker
6 part choir (or soloists) • 5 minutes

“It Comes Unadorned” (2024)
Text by Toni Morrison
choir and orchestra • 5 minutes

Night (2022)
soprano/low choir/harp • 12 minutes

Mass (2021)
choir and orchestra • 1 hour

Solo

Rushes (2026)
cello + live electronics • 10 minutes

Deep, Headstrong Blue (2026)
solo cello • 8 minutes

Voix (after Marais) (2026)
solo viol • 8 minutes

Arpeggio (after Abel) (2025)
solo viol • 10 minutes

Floortomfoolery (2025)
percussion (drum set) • 6 minutes

Blind Rain (2025)
cello + live electronics • 9 minutes

Toccata and Fugue in D major (2024)
organ • 10 minutes

Echo Chamber (2023)
cello + live electronics • 8-10 minutes

Elegy (2022)
for piano inside • 7 minutes

Isola (2021)
for solo piano • 3-4 minutes

Electronics/Multimedia/occasional techno

Ill-Used (2025)
audio + video • 10’18”

Disconcerted, Broken-Hearted (2025)
audio + video • 10’18”

Technocrat (2025) • 53’
1. upandcomer
2. gridlock
3. overlord
4. cycles
5. streetlights
6. klavierhaus
7. spin
8. surge
9. always say ok

Pseudacris Crossing (2024) • 5’04”

Hey-Ya (2024) • 5’08”

I Wanna Run (2024) • 9’23”

F1lmf00t\\renokceRRR (2024) • 3’06”

Aufzugmusik (2023) • 3’19”

A hand in a reflection pool (2023) • 6’12”

8 Bits (2022) • 9’

Alprazolam (2022) • 10’

Boats against the current (2021) • 2’15”

Film Score

The Man of the Hour by Asher Kaye (2026)
co-scored with Matthew Thomas Brown
chamber orchestra (1.1.1.1.sax. – 1.2.2. – 2 perc. – pno. – org. – strings) • 35’

Don’t buy Sex in Ohio by Reno Heyward, Elijah Morton, and Dee Pegues (2024)
fixed media • 13’

Tunnel Vision by Sophie Leah (2023)
piano and violin • 2’30”

Wrong Side of the Bed by Elijah Morton (2023)
2 clarinets/trumpet/trombone/2 percussion/piano/strings • 4’25”

Ballet Mécanique by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy (1924, score 2023)
fixed media • 16’

Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1927, score 2022)
for orchestra • 2h 27’

Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein (1925, score 2021)
for orchestra • 1h 10’

Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov (1929, score 2020, rev. 2021-2023)
for orchestra • 1h 7

Recordings

The Man of the Hour (excerpts by Aaron Nichols)
Conducted by Matthew Brown
engineered by Arturo Orso and Elijah Morton
mixed by Aaron Nichols

To Take the Edge Off