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Nicholas Pike

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Nicholas Pike
BornWater Orton, Warwickshire, England
GenresFilm and television score
OccupationMusic composer
Websitehttp://www.nicholaspike.net

Nicholas Pike is an English film and television music composer.[1]

He was born in Water Orton, Warwickshire, England, and is known for featuring unique sounds and instrumentation. He started his music career at the age of 7 at the prestigious Canterbury Choir School and subsequently moved to Cape Town, South Africa at the age of 10 where he continued in music becoming Head Chorister at St George's Grammar School, Cathedral choir as well as playing the flute with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra at the age of 15. He was also a member of the iconic rock band Hammak and toured the country with this and other bands. At age 17 he left to study flute and composition in Boston at the Berklee School of Music after which he moved to New York City, where he recorded and performed with his band FluteJuice featuring Bill Frisell, Billy Hart, Kenny Werner, and Hank Roberts among many others. He also recorded and released the album Waterlilies with Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos and guitar virtuoso Bill Connors. Before embarking on his film scoring career he conducted and recorded his suite "Master Harold and the Boys" with the London Symphony Orchestra which was based on Athol Fugard's apartheid era play of the same name.

As a film composer he has written for projects ranging from Stephen King's The Shining to Disney's Captain Ron as well as animated films such as Disney's The Prince and the Pauper. Awards include the Elmer Bernstein Award for his score to Love Object at the Woodstock Film Festival, the Best Music Award from the Sitges Cinema Fantastic Festival for his score to Critters 2 and the Emmy for original music for the HBO documentary In Tahrir Square about the beginnings of the Arab Spring.

He has also written music for large-scale music videos including Michael Jackson's "Ghost" and "You Rock My World", MC Hammer's "Too Legit to Quit" and "Here Comes The Hammer" and Will Smith's "Wild Wild West". He was hand-picked by actress/comedian and talk show host Bonnie Hunt to create and lead the first-ever daytime talk show live band for The Bonnie Hunt Show which aired on the NBC network. Pike also composed the music for the show. He recently wrote and produced the song "On Ghost Ridge" for the documentary 100 Years: One Woman's Fight for Justice chronicling the epic battle between Blackfoot Indian Elouise Cobell and the US government. The song was performed by Malaysian pop star Yuna and was submitted for an Academy Award Nomination.[citation needed]

Most recently he arranged, produced, and composed the score for the first episode of Apple TV+'s series Amazing Stories, as well as composing and producing an operatic piece performed by Ana María Martínez for the upcoming documentary Viva Verdi.[citation needed]

Filmography

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Film

Year Title Director Studio(s) Notes
1987 Graveyard Shift Jerry Ciccoritti Cinema Ventures
1988 Critters 2: The Main Course Mick Garris New Line Cinema
1989 C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. David K. Irving Vestron Pictures
1990 Mission Manila Peter Mackenzie M.C.E.G.
1992 Sleepwalkers Mick Garris Columbia Pictures
Captain Ron Thom Eberhardt Touchstone Pictures
1994 Blank Check Rupert Wainwright Walt Disney Pictures
1996 Michael Jackson's Ghosts Stan Winston MJJ Productions
Kingdom Entertainment
Direct-to-video film
1997 Star Kid Manny Coto Trimark Pictures
Telling Lies in America Guy Ferland Banner Entertainment
1998 The Sadness of Sex Rupert Wainwright FilmWorks Entertainment
1999 Delivered Guy Ferland Edie Films
2000 Return to Me Bonnie Hunt Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
2002 Virginia's Run Peter Markle Knightscove Entertainment
Holedigger Films
FeardotCom William Malone Franchise Pictures
MDP Worldwide
2003 Love Object Robert Parigi Lolo Film
Visionbox Pictures
Catapult Films
Base 12 Productions
The I Inside Roland Suso Richter Miramax Films
2004 Riding the Bullet Mick Garris Innovation Film Group
2005 Checking Out Jeff Hare FilmWorks Entertainment
The L.A. Riot Spectacular Marc Klasfeld Image Entertainment
2006 Stephen King's Desperation Mick Garris Touchstone Television
2008 Parasomnia William Malone Luminous Processes
Rising Storm Productions
2009 It's Alive Josef Rusnak Millennium Films
Blood and Bone Ben Ramsey Cinema Management Group Direct-to-video film
Wrong Turn at Tahoe Franck Khalfoun Paramount Famous Productions Direct-to-video film
2013 Devil May Call Jason Cuadrado Grindstone Entertainment Group
2014 Rio 2 Carlos Saldanha Blue Sky Studios Orchestrator

Television

Year Title Director Studio(s) Notes
1989–1996 Tales from the Crypt Various HBO 10 episodes
1997 The Shining Mick Garris ABC TV miniseries
1999–2001 The Lot Various American Movie Classics 17 episodes
2005–2007 Masters of Horror Various Showtime 6 episodes
2011 Bag of Bones Mick Garris A&E 2 episodes

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