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Nicholas Pike

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  • Composer
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Emmy Award winning British composer Nicholas Pike ranges from conducting the London Symphony Orchestra's recording of his suite based on Athol Fugard's play Master Harold and the Boys to scoring Michael Jackson's epic videos Ghost and You Rock My World. His work in film spans from Disney's Blank Check, Captain Ron and the animated The Prince and the Pauper, to the darker world of Warner Brothers' Fear Dot Com! After studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston, he moved to New York where he composed and played for multiple bands featuring the likes of Bill Frisell, Billy Hart and Kenny Werner, culminating in the recording of his album Waterlilies with guitarist Bill Connors and percussion legend Nana Vasconcelos. As a film composer, Nicholas is known for his innovative use of instruments and sounds to create music - as in Stephen King's mini-series thriller The Shining, where he used both a wind harp and the bowing of a crystal wine glass to generate edgy, metallic sound elements to the score. After scoring Return To Me for director/actress/comedienne Bonnie Hunt, she hired Nicholas to lead the first-ever daytime talk show live band for NBC's The Bonnie Hunt Show for which he also composed the show's theme song. In the documentary world he has scored HBO's Baghdad ER and In Tahrir Square - for which he won the 2013 Outstanding Music and Sound Emmy. Other documentaries include last year's For The Love Of Spock and the Native American epic 100 Years for which he also composed and produced the Academy short listed song On Ghost Ridge, performed by Yuna. Other awards include the Elmer Bernstein Award for his score to Love Object at the Woodstock Film Festival and the Best Music Award from the Sitges Cinema Fantastic Festival for his score to Critters 2. Exhibiting a wide stylistic range and facile command of both orchestral and electronic composition, Nicholas Pike has become one of Hollywood's most sought-after composers.
Born1955
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Born1955
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    • 11 wins & 1 nomination

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Nicholas, MJ and Stan Winston
Nicholas Pike and Taylor Swift
Nick Pike and Anika Noni Rose
Nicholas & Kesha
Orchestra at Sony Studio
Nick and Bono
Nick & Ana Maria Martinez
Nick & Yuna
Nick Pike and Margot Robbie
Nick & Edge
Nick Pike & Naomie Harris
Lana Del Rey & Nick Pike

Known for:

David Duchovny and Minnie Driver in Return to Me (2000)
Return to Me
6.9
  • Music Department
  • 2000
Michael Jackson in This Is It (2009)
This Is It
7.2
  • Music Department(synth programmer)
  • 2009
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution (2012)
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
7.0
Short
  • Music Department
  • 2012
The Shining (1997)
The Shining
6.1
TV Mini Series
  • Music Department

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Music Department

  • Amazing Stories (2020)
    Amazing Stories
    • song arranger and producer, piano, synth programmer
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Erin (2019)
    Erin
    • piano: synth programmer
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Kenny Pollone and Rick Kumazawa in Jap (2018)
    Jap
    • synth programming: guitar
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Ira Steven Behr in What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018)
    What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    • arranger and producer musical numbers
    • 2018
  • Cindera Che, Kara Wang, Matt William Knowles, and Jonathan Stanton in Poppies (2018)
    Poppies
    • piano: synth programmer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Fiddlin' (2018)
    Fiddlin'
    • Conductor, Synth Programmer, Piano,
    • 2018
  • Odds Are (2018)
    Odds Are
    • guitar: synth programmer
    • 2018
  • Harvey Beaks (2015)
    Harvey Beaks
    • additional music (uncredited)
    • TV Series
    • 2015–2017
  • 100 Years (2016)
    100 Years
    • Synth Programmer, Piano, Woodwinds
    • 2016
  • Leonard Nimoy in For the Love of Spock (2016)
    For the Love of Spock
    • Synth Programmer, Piano, Woodwinds
    • 2016
  • His Last Game (2015)
    His Last Game
    • piano: synth programmer
    • Short
    • 2015
  • A.M.P.A.S. Tribute Film: Jean Claude Carriere
    • synth programmer
    • TV Movie
    • 2014
  • Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, Kristin Chenoweth, Jesse Eisenberg, George Lopez, Jemaine Clement, Will.i.am, Pierce Gagnon, Rachel Crow, and Amandla Stenberg in Rio 2 (2014)
    Rio 2
    • orchestrator
    • 2014
  • Devil May Call (2013)
    Devil May Call
    • guitar: synth programmer
    • 2013
  • Halfway Somewhere Else (2013)
    Halfway Somewhere Else
    • guitar: synth programmer
    • Short
    • 2013

Composer

  • Model House
    • Composer
    • Post-production
  • Viva Verdi
    • Composer
    • Post-production
  • While You Were Dancing
    • Composer
    • Pre-production
  • Tony Sanders in Landslide (2022)
    Landslide
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • King on Screen (2022)
    King on Screen
    • Composer
    • 2022
  • Carsyn Rose in Amber Brown (2022)
    Amber Brown
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Albatross (2022)
    Albatross
    • Composer
    • 2022
  • A Mid-Century Modern Dream (2021)
    A Mid-Century Modern Dream
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2021
  • Carving the Divine (2021)
    Carving the Divine
    • Composer
    • 2021
  • Iulia Ionescu, Vlad Angelescu, Iulia Irimia, Mihai Ghencea, Andrei Gheorghe, and Oana Scortea in Cosmar (2020)
    Cosmar
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Amazing Stories (2020)
    Amazing Stories
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Erin (2019)
    Erin
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Kenny Pollone and Rick Kumazawa in Jap (2018)
    Jap
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Cindera Che, Kara Wang, Matt William Knowles, and Jonathan Stanton in Poppies (2018)
    Poppies
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Fiddlin' (2018)
    Fiddlin'
    • Composer
    • 2018
  • Odds Are (2018)
    Odds Are
    • Composer
    • 2018
  • Charity
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • States of Horror
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2017

Soundtrack

  • Nightmare Cinema (2018)
    Nightmare Cinema
    • performer: "Concerto for Alexander"
    • writer: "Concerto for Alexander"
    • 2018
  • Michael Jackson in This Is It (2009)
    This Is It
    • writer: "Ghosts - Underscore"
    • 2009
  • Gabriel Byrne, Joanne Whalley, Lindze Letherman, and Rachel Skarsten in Virginia's Run (2002)
    Virginia's Run
    • writer: "Bronwen"
    • 2002
  • David Duchovny and Minnie Driver in Return to Me (2000)
    Return to Me
    • arranger: "Return To Me"
    • producer: "Return To Me", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", "Soon", "Here I Am", "What If I Loved You"
    • 2000
  • C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud (1989)
    C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
    • music: "Bud the Chud"
    • producer: "Bud the Chud"
    • 1989
  • Graveyard Shift (1986)
    Graveyard Shift
    • music: "Contact (In the Chill of the Night)", "Alone in Love"
    • 1986

Videos5

Sweet Dreams of Joy
Demo Reel 3:12
Sweet Dreams of Joy
Portami Lontano
Demo Reel 2:16
Portami Lontano
On Ghost Ridge
Demo Reel 3:21
On Ghost Ridge
The Wheelharp
Demo Reel 2:45
The Wheelharp
Parasomnia (Dreams of the Sleepwalker)
Trailer 2:27
Parasomnia (Dreams of the Sleepwalker)

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    • 1955
    • Water Orton, Warwickshire, England, UK
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    Was a choir-boy at Canterbury Choir School before studying music at Berklee College, Boston. Subsequently played flute and led an improvisational jazz group featuring Bill Frisell in New York before going to Hollywood.

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