Biography

Nicholas Pike has scored films ranging from the family-oriented Captain Ron, Return to Me and Virginia's Run to darker films like Fear Dot Com, The Shining mini-series and The I Inside. He has scored large scale music videos like Michael Jackson's Ghost, Rock My World and Will Smith's Wild, Wild West. Nicholas recently won the 2013 Outstanding Music and Sound EMMY for the HBO documentary In Tahrir Square. 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/comedienne and talk show host Bonnie Hunt to create and lead the first-ever daytime talk show live band for The Bonnie Hunt Show currently airing on the NBC network. Nicholas Pike also composed and scored The Bonnie Hunt Show theme.

Nicholas Pike started his music career at age seven when he auditioned for and was accepted to the prestigious Canterbury Choir School in England. There, aside from singing in the choir, he was required to learn two instruments: one had to be the piano; Nicholas chose the flute as his primary instrument. After finishing high school Nicholas came to the U.S. to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston, majoring in composition. During the subsequent years in Boston and New York he wrote for and played flute with various bands whose members spanned music greats Bill Frisell, Billy Hart, Hank Roberts, Bill Connors, Nana Vasconcelos and Kenny Werner, among others.

Most Notable Awards

3 Award Wins, 1 Nominations

Emmy	1 Win

He conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in a recording of his Master Harold and The Boys Suite, originally composed for a film version of playwright Athol Fugard's apartheid drama. He recorded the orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in London and this led to him scoring his first movie, Graveyard Shift. He subsequently moved to Los Angeles where he continues to score films as well as compose and conduct for high-profile television projects and music videos. Nicholas is known for his innovative use of instruments and sounds to create music. An example of this technique is Stephen King's thriller Sleepwalkers, where he used the rubbing of a crystal wine glass to generate an edgy, metallic sound simulating the cats' wail. Exhibiting a wide stylistic range and facile command of both orchestral and electronic composition, Nicholas Pike has become one of the most sought-after composers. Pike's ability to work in creative partnership with a film's director, as well as his skills as an arranger, conductor and engineer add to his appeal