Nic Cox (1956 ->
Compositions, performance, commissions, and recordings:
2008: "PROMETHEUS" Opera: work in progress //
2007: Fur Hannele. Piano score.//
2001. 'MANDOLITIS' - remix for Chris Cox.//
2000: "PRESS 'ENTER' TO EXIT" - Virtual Lemmings - Producer, Composer, Engineer. Internet Release - on www.soundstheearth.com. //
1999: "THE FACE THAT..." - Trudge Euphoria, Kyle of Lochalsh . Producer & Engineer. CD release. www.trudgeeuphoria.com //
1998: RCA CD & Live Music Graduate Fashion show presentation: Roundhouse, London, CD Rom (ref Tejinder Singh, Delhi). //
1997: "MASADA", an Opera, a work for soprano, alto, tenor, bass and counter-tenor, choir, small orchestral ensemble, percussion and synthesiser, Full Orchestral Score. //
1996 -> MUSIC DESIGN COMPANY. Music for CD-ROMs including Ballantines, Bird Semple, The Tunnel, //
1996:, Trio in C Minor: commissioned by the Rachmaninov Trio from Rostov Score //
1995 "EAST OF EDEN" - Recording, performing & production: Band: 'Superstringz', Sounds The Earth records. CD release. //
1992: "I JUST DO WHAT MY HEART FEELS" London label Shut Up And Dance Records, and released under the name " Professor Love ", No.19 in the alternative dance label charts. Recording, Vinyl //
1992: Music For The Movies" - "MAIRI -A ROMANCE OF THE HIGHLANDS" Joint GFT/SCO project, Premiere March 1992 at the GFT, performed by SCO, conductor James Macmillan. Score //
1990 "CONCERTO FOR 10 PLAYERS" - The instrumentation features the juxtaposition of Jazz brass quartet and string quartet, piano and double bass. Score and recording. It was commissioned by the Glasgow Festivals Office for the Glasgow's' European City of Culture' celebrations, and premiered at the Renfrew Ferry in Glasgow, on 15 Dec.1990, by 'The Glasgow New Brass' and the 'Proteus String Quartet', conductor: Paul MacAlindon. Score / Recording //
1989 "AND JOSEPHINE TOO" Soul based album released on Rose Records CD Release, // 1989 "CHORAL PIECES" :: for unaccompanied voices, based on texts by Robert Burns and John Donne entered into the 1989 Lewis Silkin competition for choral work (Edinburgh). Score. //
1989 "PIANO STUDIES 3, 4 & 5" : Piano scores. "EAST OF EDEN": Song Album by 'Rose Thieves', released on own Rose Records label. Recording. CD release //
1988 "SUPERNATURAL" :. Orchestral score for London West End musical written by James McNulty. (Show yet unreleased.) Score. //
1988, "I COVER THE WATERFRONT " : Musical Director - Directed by James McNulty and staged at the Third Eye Centre, Glasgow. Musical Director of Waterfront Theatre in a one-woman Billie Holiday revue, //
1989: "DRAGON SUITE" : written in five movements representing the energies of the five mythological Chinese dragons: Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit. The movements are consecutively scored for: strings, small orchestra, small orchestra including percussion, full orchestra, and string ensemble. Score. //
1987 Set up Rose Studios, Glasgow. MIDI Song-writing and 16-T Recording Studio. Formed ensemble 'Rose Thieves' as performance outlet for own popular song and dance compositions.//
1986 "BEYOND THE PINK HORIZON" :, album by 'Brill Building', was written recorded and produced for CBS records. Non-release. Vinyl. //
1985 "AMERICAN DESIRE" 'Ruby Flood - Cassette Album on STEP AHEAD RECORDS: recorded song cycle with baroque and mediaeval musical influences but also incorporating contemporary Rock instrumentation and studio production techniques. Tape. //
1984 - 87 Composition and arranging string, brass and percussion parts for Rip Rig & Panic, Float Up CP (Latterly Soul 2 Soul) and 'Henry Cow'. In association with Cold Storage collective ( Acre Lane Studios, London) Also formed the studio band 'Brill Building',//
1983 "OM SLAINTHE-MOR" Recording. A 'New Age' music piece orchestrated for percussion instruments including Chinese Cymbals and xylophone, Harmonicas, the Gamelan, sound effects chants.Tape.//
1980 "JINGLES": Album, "LIPSTICK": 1980 Single, released on EMI Records Vinyl. 'Band: 'Advertising'
1975- > 78 "Duke Duke and the Dukes" - electric bass (touring rock band, in association with Dr Feelgood & Kursaal Flyers.)
1974 "The Echo Mountain Boys" - Acoustic bass: In association with Bill Clifton / Rick & Andy Townsend. (Mandolin/Banjo/Fiddle) / Chris cox (Mandolin, gtr) //
Nic Cox is classically trained on Piano & Violin, and studied composition at the RSAMD, Glasgow, Scotland. He started work as a bass player in a Bluegrass Band, and became a professional Rock Bass Player. Having been involved in the Music Industry since 1973, he became Sound Engineer with Spaceward Studios of Cambridge in 1980. In 1982 Nic left Spaceward to design and manage his own recording studio called Rose Studios, which was based in London. Originally the studio operated commercial recording services for recording artists and Independent Record Companies but it's services expanded through the 1980s and the company found more lucrative opportunities within music training. In 1995 Nic become a partner of the Music Design Company in Glasgow who supplied audio to the film, TV and advertising media, Commercial Clients include Ballantines Whisky Europe 1998 TV /Ad campaign, Live & CDRom music for RCA Fashion & Textiles Graduate Multimedia Show 1998, Allied Distillers Taste of the Glens Whisky CD, Bird Semple Conference Multimedia show, Barker & Stonehouse TV Ads, Ayrshire Enterprise CDRom, Scottish Mutual, Pegasus, The Tunnel interactive touch screen project, amongst many others. In 1999 he set up Sounds The Earth, and is currently re-developing the website which was Scotland's first virtual record label.
Cox is currently working on his second Opera: "Prometheus" for Tenor, Alto, Chorus, & small orchestra. He is also writing & recording material for Virtual Lemmings & Superstringz for new release in 2010.