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Nicole Brady : Associate Artist


Photo of Nicole Brady

Photo: Daniel Boud

email: producer@wldrco.com

Nicole Brady is an Australian born producer, composer and pianist. She is most known for her work on iconic video game soundtrack franchises (Final Fantasy, Tekken, Valkyria Chronicles) & performing her piano concerto neo prefecture: palm city an ode to metabolist megastructures in the 2022 award winning interactive series We Are OFK (Sony Soundtracks).

Her debut album Lost Palace released late 2023 through Bright Shiny Records and features the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Miles Mosley, Mark Guiliana + Lydia Ainsworth.

After formative years in Sydney, Singapore & Nepal, as a young artist she studied with American jazz composer William Motzing at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and graduated with the Winifred Margaret Neirous award for the top graduating piano recital. As a Brian May Scholar, she undertook a Masters degree at NYU, studying piano with Daniel Gortler & film scoring with Ira Newborn, graduating with the Elmer Bernstein award & teaching as an adjunct professor in piano.

As a third stream arranger, notable commissions include Savassi Festival for Kenny Werner' 'Spaces' four movement piano concerto performed by Kenny Werner Trio + Sao Paolo Symphony; WDR Radio Orchestra Köln, and her own work 'sinfonia' with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.

Ensembles and artists who have commissioned and performed her music recently include the Omega Ensemble SOH Master Series & Hear Now LA 'sognare vignette i-iv' (2019 + 2021), Lyris Quartet at In Sheep's Clothing 'libretto at six o'clock' (2020), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the ABC 'Qualifying' (2022). She has also performed her music at venues including the Concert Hall + Utzon Room Sydney Opera House, LPR, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Reduta CZ, Bösendorfer Saal Vienna.

These days Nicole is based at the University of Melbourne as a PhD academic researcher in 'catalyzing immersion' and teaches within the fine arts department. She founded production company WLDR which focuses on immersive experiences + sound strategy, and developed Repast, a multi-sensory XR experience during a Ukaria Cultural Centre residency and premiered during Illuminate Adelaide 2023 at Light ADL.


Nicole Brady — current to November 2023

Studied with

William Motzing (2002 - 2005)

Natalia Ricci (2002 - 2004)

Giya Kancheli (2009)

Daniel Gortler (2010 - 2012)

Ira Newborn (2010 - 2012)

 

Selected Commissions

  Work Commission Details
Digital sheet music sample Qualifying : for full orchestra (2022) Composed as part of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music readings.
Digital sheet music sample neo prefecture: palm city an ode to metabolist megastructures : chamber concerto (2020) Commissioned by Teddy Dief LLC / Sony / Kowloon Nights for Sony PS5 interactive series 'We Are OFK'.
sognare vignette i-iv (trios: clarinet, piano, cello) (2019) Commissioned by Jason Catlett, Omega Ensemble.
Postlude (dramatic music) (2016) Commissioned by Omega Ensemble.