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Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer and guitarist. He has scored the award-winning
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'' and '' Andes to Amazon'', as well as the TV movies ''
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'' and ''
My Family and Other Animals ''My Family and Other Animals'' (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on ...
'' among others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award and an
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for Original Score in 2004 for ''
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'' and a BAFTA for Best Original Television Music in 2007 for '' Prime Suspect: The Final Act''. His highest-profile scores were for ''
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witc ...
'' and ''
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the sixth and penultimate novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. Set during Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts, the novel explores th ...
'', for which he reunited with old friend director
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, with whom he had worked before on '' The Tichborne Claimant'', ''
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'', '' State of Play'', ''The Young Visiters'' and ''The Girl in the Café''. These were Hooper's most notable works on blockbuster films. For ''Half-Blood Prince'', he was nominated for a
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. However, he chose not to return for the final two installments, which were composed by French composer & conductor
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. Hooper then scored the soundtrack to the
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documentary ''
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'', which was chosen as one of the 97 original scores eligible for a nomination at the
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in 2011. Hooper is also a performing guitarist. He released a solo guitar album, ''6 Strings'', in 2015. The album features Irish folk music and was recorded at
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in London. In 2018, he released the album ''Pete's Trees'' with his duo Henderson:Hooper. In 2019 he appeared on charity double CD ''Strings that Nimble Leap'', produced by
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, alongside
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and
Chris Leslie Christopher Michael Leslie (born 28 June 1972) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley from 1997 to 2005 and Nottingham East from 2010 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, he defected to form ...
. He performs regularly with Gordon Giltrap MBE and The Boot Band. Hooper has also released three novels: ''Above the Void'' (2017) and books One and Two in the Arnold Rackham detective thriller series, ''The Occasional Gardener'' (2018) and ''The Mirror in the Ice Cream Parlour'' (2019). Book Three is due for release in 2020.


Works

* ''Port Meadow'' (1985) * ''The Road Ahead'' (1988) * ''Wildabout'' (1989) * ''National Geographic Series'' (1991) * ''The Weaver's Wife'' (1991) * ''Good Looks'' (1992) * ''The Time Traveller'' (1993) * ''Punch'' (1996) *''
Land of the Tiger ''Land of the Tiger'' is a BBC nature documentary series exploring the natural history of the Indian subcontinent, first transmitted in the UK on BBC Two in 1997. The production team covered the breadth and depth of India, from the Himalayan mou ...
'' (1997) * '' The Tichborne Claimant'' (1998) *''Elephants of the Sand River'' (1999) * '' Andes to Amazon'' (2000) *''Timeless Thames'' (2000-2001) * ''
The Way We Live Now ''The Way We Live Now'' is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope, published in London in 1875 after first appearing in serialised form. It is one of the last significant Victorian novels to have been published in monthly parts. The novel is ...
'' (2001) - BAFTA nomination * ''The Secret'' (2002) * '' The Heart of Me'' (2003) * ''
The Future is Wild ''The Future Is Wild'' (also referred to by the acronym ''FIW'') is a 2002 speculative evolution docufiction miniseries and an accompanying multimedia entertainment franchise. ''The Future Is Wild'' explores the ecosystems and wildlife of thre ...
'' (2003) * '' Loving You'' (2003) *''DV8: The Cost of Living'' (2003) * '' State of Play'' (2003) - BAFTA nomination * ''
The Young Visiters ''The Young Visiters'' or ''Mister Salteena's Plan'' is a 1919 novel by English writer Daisy Ashford (1881–1972). She wrote it when she was nine years old and part of its appeal lies in its juvenile innocence, and its unconventional grammar a ...
'' (2003) - BAFTA winner *''Tigers of the Emerald Forest'' (2003) * ''Messiah III: The Promise'' (2004) * '' Blue Murder'' (2004) * ''Nature'' (1996–2005) * '' Dad'' (2005) *'' Bloodlines'' (2005) *''
My Family and Other Animals ''My Family and Other Animals'' (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on ...
'' (2005) * ''
The Girl in the Café ''The Girl in the Café'' is a British made-for-television drama film directed by David Yates, written by Richard Curtis and produced by Hilary Bevan Jones. The film is produced by the independent production company Tightrope Pictures and was ...
'' (2005) - BAFTA nomination * '' The Chatterley Affair'' (2006) * '' Prime Suspect: The Final Act'' (2006) - BAFTA winner * ''
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witc ...
'' (2007) * ''
Einstein and Eddington ''Einstein and Eddington'' is a British single drama produced by Company Pictures and the BBC, in association with HBO. It featured David Tennant as British scientist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, and Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein. This is the ...
'' (2008) * ''
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the sixth and penultimate novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. Set during Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts, the novel explores th ...
'' (2009) - Grammy nomination * ''Enid'' (2009) * ''
Yes, Virginia "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is a line from an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church titled "Is There a Santa Claus?", which appeared in the New York newspaper '' The Sun'' on September 21, 1897, and became one of the most famous ...
'' (2009) * ''10 Minute Tales'' (2009) * ''Mo'' (2010) * '' DCI Banks: Aftermath'' (2010) * ''
African Cats ''African Cats'' (known as ''Felines'' in France) is a 2011 nature documentary film about a pride of lions and a family of cheetahs trying to survive in the African savannah directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey. The film was release ...
'' (2011) * ''
Stella Days ''Stella Days'' is a 2011 film directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan and starring Martin Sheen as a Roman Catholic priest in rural Ireland during the mid-1950s. The film is based on the book ''Stella Days: The Life and Times of a Rural Irish Cinema ...
'' (2011) * ''
Birdsong Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by fun ...
'' (BBC One Drama) (2012) * ''
Chimpanzee The chimpanzee (''Pan troglodytes''), also known as simply the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forest and savannah of tropical Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed subspecies. When its close relative the ...
'' (2012) * ''
The Escape Artist ''The Escape Artist'' is a 1982 film starring Griffin O'Neal and Raúl Juliá. It was based on a book by David Wagoner, and was the directorial debut of Caleb Deschanel. It was the final film of Joan Hackett, Desi Arnaz, and Gabriel Dell, and ...
'' (2013) *''Winter Thaw'' (2016)


See also

* Harry Potter music


References


External links


Nicholas Hooper's websiteNicholas Hooper - Nick Hooper official Facebook page
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