Nicholas has recently completed a new work, The Chemistry of Angels, which includes the Harmonic Sail, an excting new instruments crafted from a sculptured metal resonating sheet attached to bowed rods. The instrument is being development by master instrument maker Paul Jefferies. The Chemistry of Angels explores our connection with the Cosmos and also features soprano Emma Tring, strings, overtone singing and Gongs. The premiere performance is planned for 2027 as part of the BrichKorth Concert Series in Forest Row, Sussex. 

He has also been commsisioned by the artistic director of the Orchestra of St John's, John  Lubbock, to write a work for the orchestra to be performed in Dorchester Abbey on 20.11.2027. The work, Cottongrass, is based on the Swedish fairy tale Tuvstarr. Soprano Emma Tring will sing the role of Princess Cottongrass and baritone Gregers Brinch Longleap Elk in a semi-staged performance.

In 2022 he was appointed as composer in residence with the English Sinfonia who premiered his Mehta Songs with soprano Emma Tring and Saturn Planet Gong in the same year.

As a member of the London Conchord Ensemble he has had much of his music performed (notably in the USA and at London’s Wigmore Hall) and recorded. He has worked closely with overtone singers Paul Terrell, Rollin Rachele and Gareth Lubbe, tenors James Gilchrist, Toby Spence and Daniel Norman and sopranos Olivia Robinson and Emma Tring.

Nicholas Korth grew up surrounded by the natural beauty of the Ashdown Forest in Sussex and influenced by the creative environment of the local Rudolf Steiner School (Michael Hall). During the early nineties he wrote for the English Eurythmy Theatre who toured extensively in the USA and Europe with productions of The Winds of Time and Storm’s Child.

War’s Embers, his settings of Ivor Gurney, was premiered in 2004 at the Wigmore Hall by tenor James Gilchrist, with Emily Pailthorpe, oboe d’amore and Julian Milford, piano. His series of compositions Harmoniae Naturales, explores his long-held fascination with natural tuning. Numbers I to III were written and premiered between 2005 and 2009. Harmoniae Naturales IV, Luminescence, was premiered by the Orpheus Sinfonia, cellist Tom Carroll and tenor Nigel Robson at St. George’s Hanover square, London. Also featured in this concert was …like Shining from Shook Foil, a setting of Hopkins’ transcendental poetry for soprano and orchestra with Olivia Robinson.

In 2015, the St. Paul’s Sinfonia featured Nicholas as their composer in residence, performing both Harmoniae Narurales IV and V, to Autumn. Harmoniae Naturales VI, a full-length work for soprano, tenor, overtone singers and orchestra – again involving Hopkins’ poetry – was premiered in 2019. The venue once more was St George’s, Hanover Square with the Orpheus Sinfonia conducted by Simon Wills, soprano Patricia Auchterlonie, tenor Daniel Norman and overtone singers Rollin Rachele, Wolfgang Saus, Lothar Berger and Jan Heinke.

Nicholas has held the position of Co-principal Horn with the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and appears regularly as guest principal horn and soloist with many other ensembles. He lives in Hertfordshire with violinist Deborah Schlenther and their family.