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	Columbia 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
	It's Alive	Josef Rusnak	Millennium Films	N/A
2009	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

• Blood and Bone
• Fair Haired Child (Masters of Horror)
• Michael Jackson's Ghosts
• The Lot
• Stephen King's The Shining
• Tales from the Crypt
• Telling Lies in America

References

1. Last.fm

External links

• Nicholas Pike at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Bio