Nicholas Pike

Nicholas Pike
Born Water Orton, Warwickshire, England
Genres Film score
Occupation(s) Composer
Website http://www.nicholaspike.net

Nicholas Pike is an Emmy Award winning English film composer.[1]

Pike was born in Water Orton, Warwickshire, England and is known for featuring unique sounds and instrumentation. He has composed music for the likes of Michael Jackson ("Ghost", "You Rock My World"), MC Hammer ("Too Legit To Quit", "Here Comes The Hammer") and Will Smith ("Wild Wild West"). In film he has composed for projects ranging from Stephen King's The Shining to Disney's Captain Ron. 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. Pike is a sought-after film composer and was recently 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. Nicholas Pike also composed and scored The Bonnie Hunt Show theme.

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 Cathedral as well as performing with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra at the age of 15. He was also a member of the iconic rock band HAMMAK. At age 17 he left to study in Boston at the Berklee School of Music after which he moved to New York where he recorded and performed with Bill Frisell, Nana Vasconcelos, Bill Connors, Billy Hart, Kenny Werner among many others.

Filmography

Year Title Director Studio(s) Notes
1987 Graveyard Shift Jerry Ciccoritti Cinema Ventures N/A
1988 Critters 2: The Main Course Mick Garris New Line Cinema N/A
1989 C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. David K. Irving Vestron Pictures N/A
1990 Mission Manila Peter Mackenzie M.C.E.G. N/A
1992 Sleepwalkers Mick Garris Columbia Pictures N/A
Captain Ron Thom Eberhardt Touchstone Pictures N/A
1994 Blank Check Rupert Wainwright Walt Disney Pictures N/A
1998 Star Kid Manny Coto Trimark Pictures N/A
The Sadness of Sex Rupert Wainwright Filmworks N/A
1999 Delivered Guy Ferland Edie Films N/A
2000 Return to Me Bonnie Hunt Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer N/A
2002 Virginia's Run Peter Markle Alliance Atlantis N/A
FeardotCom William Malone Franchise Pictures N/A
2003 Love Object Robert Parigi Lionsgate N/A
2004 The I Inside Ronald Suso Richter Miramax N/A
Riding the Bullet Mick Garris Innovation Film N/A
2005 Checking Out Jeff Hare Allumination Filmworks N/A
The L.A. Riot Spectacular Marc Klasfeld Image Entertainment N/A
2008 Parasomnia William Malone Rising Storm Productions N/A
2009 It's Alive Josef Rusnak Millennium Films N/A
Blood and Bone Ben Ramsey Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 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 N/A
2014 Rio 2 Carlos Saldanha Blue Sky Studios Orchestrator

References

  1. ↑ Last.fm
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