The Lionsgate Sinfonia will be performing Christopher’s Kyrie for Strings on March 7th @7:30pm at the Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver.
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October 29, 2024
The Vancouver Chamber Choir will perform my setting of the “O Magnum Mysterium” on their Christmas by Candlelight concerts this December 12th and 13th.
Tickets and information can be found here: https://vancouverchamberchoir.com/repertoire/#christmas-by-candlelight
October 23, 2024
Avie Records will release new recordings of my Concerto for Piccolo and Concerto for Four Wagner Tubas this November 15th! Recorded with the Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra under the baton of Clyde Mitchell, soloists include Sarah Jackson (piccolo), and Oliver de Clercq, Laurel Spencer, Valerie Whitney, and Holly Bryan (Wagner Tubas). Pre-order your copy here!
August 22, 2024
A new season of Discovery’s Highway thru Hell is coming this fall, check your local listings for more information!
March 14, 2024
AVIE Records has released the premiere recording of my Requiem. Recorded with the Northwest Sinfonia and Choir, Catherine Redding (solo soprano) and conducted by Clyde Mitchell. Order your copy here:
January 25, 2024
Join the Lions Gate Sinfonia, Vancouver Chamber Choir and soprano soloist Catherine Redding Soprano, all under the baton of Clyde Mitchell for the premiere of Christopher Tyler Nickel’s Requiem. The concert is on Saturday March 2nd, 2024, 7:30pm at West Vancouver United Church. This performance is in conjunction with the Requiem album release from Avie Records.
Tickets can be purchased here:
April 10, 2023
The complete oratorio setting of the Gospel According to Mark is now available from Avie Records! Please click here for more information and how to order.
April 10, 2023
So thrilled to have been interviewed by Kelsey Kramer McGinnis for Christianity Today! Here’s a link to the feature article which covers Avie Record’s release, of my oratorio setting of the Gospel According to Mark. The 7-disc set is available this Friday April 7!
January 4, 2023
The first EP from my seven-hour oratorio setting of The Gospel According to Mark is being released by Avie Records this January 13th! You can get more information from Avie’s website by clicking here.
December 14, 2022
Upcoming holiday works will be featured on the programmes of the Lions Gate Sinfonia, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and Panama City Symphony Orchestra.
December 14, 2022
The two part mini-series After the Storm will premiere on Discovery Channel Canada this December 15th and conclude on the 16th. This series looks at the devastation felt by so many after last year’s atmospheric river hit British Columbia causing mass flooding and devastation to southern BC.
November 21, 2022
I’m so pleased to announce that AVIE Records has released my latest album Sonatas and Chamber Music for Oboe and Oboe d’amore with soloist Mary Lynch VanderKolk! More information can be found here.
November 21, 2022
Sarah Jackson (principal piccolo of the Los Angeles Philharmonic) will premiere my new Concerto for Piccolo with the Lions Gate Sinfonia and Clyde Mitchell on Saturday November 5th at the Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver.
September 15, 2022
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic will be performing Following Yonder Star this December 9th and 10th at the Scranton Cultural Centre and FM Kirby Center respectively.
September 15, 2022
Season 11 of Highway thru Hell premieres this September 26th on Discovery. Check here for more information!
September 15, 2022
The new series Deadman’s Curse premieres on History Channel this September 11th.
August 26, 2022
The Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra will perform “Horizons” as part of Light Up Gastown on August 25.
August 12, 2022
The Professional Flute Choir will be performing “Symphony for Flute Choir” at the National Flute Association Conference in Chicago this August 14th.
August 6, 2022
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra will be performing “Celebration” August 4th at their Marina del Rey Summer Symphony season!
June 10, 2022
So honoured to announce my nomination for a 2022 Western Canadian Music Award for classical artist of the year!
June 10, 2022
I’m honoured to have received a 2021 Leo Award nomination once again for Highway thru Hell! Fantastic to be part of the string of nominations for Great Pacific Television’s numerous series.
March 22, 2022
Thrilled to have been invited back to chat with Peter Lewis on North Cotswold Community Radio’s “Cooler Classics” discussing Inbal Segev‘s recording of my “Fractures of Solitude” as well as my recording of “Symphony No.2” released by AVIE Records!
Check it out here.
February 15, 2022
I’m thrilled to be a guest on Alexia Melocchi’s podcast “The Heart of Show Business”, talking about my career, my recent album releases on @AVIE Records, and ten years of scoring @Highway thru Hell, and working in both film and television as well as concert music. Check out Alexia’s positive and uplifting podcast focusing on inspirational and empowering interviews of business leaders and creators from around the world.
https://www.theheartofshowbusiness.com/scoring-life-with-christopher-tyler-nickel/
February 11, 2022
It was an honour to work with the amazingly talented cellist Inbal Segev on her 20 for 2020 project! You can find her recording of my “Fractures of Solitude” released by Avie Records on your favourite music platform.
December 14, 2021
The Lions Gate Sinfonia will be premiering Christopher’s new “Fantasia on O Holy Night” under the baton of Maestro Clyde Mitchell this December 18th at the Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver.
December 14, 2021
The university of Iowa Symphony Orchestra will be performing Christopher’s “Following Yonder Star” on December 21st at the Hancher Auditorium.
December 8, 2021
The Lions Gate Sinfonia will be premiering Christopher’s “Fantasia on O Holy Night” at their annual Christmas concert this December 18th at the Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver.
Tickets are available through the Centennial Theatre’s website.
November 6, 2021
It was a pleasure to provide the original score for tonight’s premiere of “Highway to Heaven” starring Grammy-winner Jill Scott and 7th Heaven alum Barry Watson! This is Lifetime’s reboot of the original Michael Landon series from the 1980s. Catch it on Lifetime Saturday November 6, 2021 at 8/7c.
November 6, 2021
Honoured to have the Lions Gate Sinfonia under the baton of Clyde Mitchell perform “The Peace Beyond” with special guest soloist Sarah Jackson on November 6th, 2021 at the Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver.
July 7, 2021
The Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra will be performing “Horizons” this July 9th!
May 21, 2021
Also thrilled to announce a 2021 Leo Award nomination in the category of Best Feature Length Documentary Score for my music to “The Nature of Things: Dinosaur Cold Case”!!
May 21, 2021
So honoured to announce my nomination for a 2021 Western Canadian Music Award for classical artist of the year!
https://breakoutwest.ca/awards/music-awards
April 13, 2021
It is with great excitement that I’d like to announce my second album release from Avie Records, my nearly hour long, one-movement “Symphony No. 2”!
From Avie’s website:
Vast, deep and emotional are apt descriptions of the single-movement, 53-minute-long Symphony No. 2 by Christopher Tyler Nickel. The award-winning Canadian composer elaborates, “One can think of this music as consisting of mirrors between ideas that equally disturb yet entice. Each side of the reflection is in itself conceivably valid, but when facing each other friction and dissonance are created. The exquisitely alluring and the grotesque exist simultaneously. Perhaps another way to understand the symphony is as a meditation on the state of cognitive dissonance.” The entrepreneurial Clyde Mitchell conducts the Seattle-based Northwest Sinfonia on this world-premiere recording.
This album again features beautiful cover art provided by my friend and amazing artist Motoko.
More information is available on Avie’s website here.
March 12, 2021
Beth Orson will be premiering Christopher’s “Suite for Unaccompanied Oboe” as part of this year’s Vancouver Pro Musica’s Sonic Boom Festival.
More information can be found here
November 12, 2020
Christopher has received a 2020 SOCAN Award for his score to the television movie “A Gift to Remember” for Hallmark!
September 10, 2020
My new album “Concertos for Oboe” is now available on the Avie Records label!
This album features Seattle Symphony principal oboist Mary Lynch performing my Concerto for Oboe as well as Concerto for Oboe d’amore, and Harrison Linsey of the National Symphony Orchestra performing my Concerto for Bass Oboe.
The beguiling and virtuosic performances by these two incredible soloists are dramatically accompanied by the Northwest Sinfonia conducted by Grammy-award winner David Sabee.
Available from Avie’s website, Apple Music & iTunes, Presto Classical, and Amazon around the world.
Please visit Avie’s website for further information:
September 2, 2020
Another exciting season of Highway thru Hell premiers Monday, Sept 14 at 10 ET on Discovery! Be sure to check it out!
July 31, 2020
Christopher has won the 2020 Leo Award for “Best Score for a Documentary Series” for his work on “Highway thru Hell”.
February 1, 2020
The Lionsgate Sinfonia will be performing Christopher’s Kyrie for Strings on March 7th @7:30pm at the Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver.
November 19, 2019
Some exciting news… my latest album “Music for Woodwind Choirs” has been released by Centrediscs! This album features my “Suite for Two Oboes and Two English Horns” as well as “Symphony for Flute Choir”. I’m so proud to have recorded this album right here in Vancouver with some of the finest musicians around, all conducted by Maestro Clyde Mitchell.
Purchase your copy here:
https://cmccanada.org/shop/cmccd-27019/
You can also purchase a digital copy through iTunes:
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/music-for-woodwind-choirs/1487508056
November 19, 2019
The South Bend Symphony Orchestra in Indiana will be performing “Following Yonder Star” this December 22nd and 23rd at the Morris Performing Arts Center.
November 19, 2019
The Williamson County Orchestra of Texas will be performing “Following Yonder Star” this:
Dec 7, 2019 – 7:30 PM –Howze Theater – Fort Hood
Dec 13, 2016 – 7:30 PM –St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church – Cedar Park
Dec 14, 2016 – 7:30 PM –St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church – Avery Ranch
November 19, 2019
The new season of Highway thru Hell is currently airing on Discovery. Be sure to check it out!
March 26, 2019
Honoured to have won the 2019 Leo Award for Best Musical Score for a Documentary Series for “Wild Bear Rescue”! Thank you to everyone at Omni for the opportunity to be a part of this wonderful show!
March 16, 2019
Christopher is thrilled to have received two 2019 Leo Award nominations for his work on “Highway thru Hell” as well as “Wild Bear Rescue”.
March 11, 2019
Christopher’s one-movement, forty-five minute long Symphony No. 2 has been recorded by the Northwest Sinfonia under the baton of Clyde Mitchell. It will be available on CD and download later this year. Stay tuned!
January 3, 2019
On March 5th, Inner Space Concerts in Halifax, Nova Scotia will present my Symphony No. 2 (transcribed for string quintet and woodwind quintet) at the Presbyterian Church of Saint David, Halifax, NS.
More information can be found at: https://innerspaceconcerts.ca/concert/symphonic-inner-space/
January 3, 2019
January 26th, 2019, the Lionsgate Sinfonia under the baton of Maestro Clyde Mitchell will perform my Symphony No. 2 (transcribed for chamber orchestra). The concert is at the Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver at 7:30pm.
More information can be found at: http://lionsgatesinfonia.com