About

BIO

Nick Storring is a Toronto-based composer, musician, writer, and curator. His varied and idiosyncratic body of musical work spans chamber compositions to meticulously constructed recordings consisting solely of Storring’s own overdubbed instrumental performances. This output reflects his eclecticism as a listener — juxtaposing the familiar and the abstract to conjure moments of hallucinatory reminiscence.

He has worked with a number of leading artists and organizations in contemporary music including Montréal’s AKOUSMA Festival, Oxford UK’s Audiograft Festival, Késia Decoté, Joseph Petric, the Penderecki Quartet, Boyd McDonald, the Esprit Orchestra, Arraymusic, Soundstreams, Eve Egoyan, Sophia Subbayya Vastek, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Quatuor Bozzini, and Vancouver New Music. Winner of the Canadian Music Centre’s 2011 Toronto Emerging Composer Award, he also placed first in the 2008 Jeux De Temps competition for electroacoustic composition. His recorded output has also been released on celebrated experimental music imprints such as Orange Milk Records, mappa editions, Scissor Tail, Notice Recordings and Entr’acte.

In 2023 he was invited to participate in a two-week residency program at Stockholm’s Elektronmusik studion, composing with and for the Halldorophone, a cello-like instrument played with feedback.

An avid collaborator, Storring has composed for feature films by Terrance Odette, Ingrid Veninger and, in collaboration with Dafydd Hughes, for the National Film Board’s award-winning interactive web documentary High Rise : Universe Within, directed by Katerina Cizek. His music for ‘ambient gaming environment’ Tentacle traveled with the work to New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2011. He also participated in A More Beautiful Journey, a project commemorating the Toronto Transit Commission’s 100th year with site-specific- compositions that dynamically accompany specific transit routes throughout the city.

Since 2014, composing for dance has also become a key aspect of his practice. He has worked extensively with celebrated Toronto choreographer Yvonne Ng, while also having worked with movement artists such as Deepti Gupta, Marie-Josée Chartier, and Brandy Leary.

Storring’s sixth album My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell was released by Orange Milk Records in March 2020 to considerable acclaim, garnering praise in major outlets such as the Wire, Exclaim!, PopMatters, and Vice China and elsewhere. Its 2021 follow-up Newfoundout (mappa editions) employed names of Ontario ghost-towns for its titles, and achieved a similar critical regard. Kate Molleson of the BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show remarked of it on air that “there are absolutely no clichés at play,” and applauded it for “picking up on the sonic potential around notions of space, notions of repurposed objects, notions of tapping memory and suggestion.”

Music From ‘Wéi 成为‘, his eighth full-length, launched in August 2022 on Orange Milk Records and features his 50-minute score for Yvonne Ng’s piece Wéi 成为 which consists exclusively of multi-layered piano. Foxy Digitalis said of it “Storring’s one-person-orchestra approach has always felt intimate and distinctive, but as Music from W​é​i 成为 pushes that idea further, something new emerges. This is a stunning record.  “

Follow more experimental outings including an extended piece performed exclusively on a pedestrian bridge, and a collection of work recorded only through humbucker pickups, Storring released his ninth album, Mirante in March of 2025 with Toronto’s We Are Busy Bodies. This acclaimed homage to Brazil was hailed by Il Manifesto as “a small masterpiece” and by Backseat Mafia in their 8.9/10 review as “a unique percussive and orchestral panorama”

For Storring’s full curriculum vitae, click here.