Nicholas Hooper

Nicholas Hooper

Biography[]

BeforePotter[]

In the past, he has scored the award-winning BBC productionsLand of the Tiger andAndes to Amazon, as well as the TV moviesMy Family and Other Animals, andThe Girl in the Café, amongst others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award for Original Score in 2004 forThe Young Visiters and a BAFTA for Best Original Television Music in 2007 forPrime Suspect:The Final Act: starring Helen Mirren.^[1] Prime Suspect: The Final Act was an ITV and WGBH co-production.Harry Potter was his first work for a blockbuster film.^[2]

Harry Potter films[]

He was nominated for World Soundtrack Award for hisscore forHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in2007, as well as a Saturn Award for the same film in2008. He most recently composed thescore forHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

In July2009, a week after the successful release ofHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,iF Magazine released an interview with Hooper in which he stated that he would not be composing the soundtracks for the final two films.^[3]

AfterHarry Potter[]

In 2010, inspired by working closely with J K Rowling's stories and having mostly retired from film composition, Hooper turned his hand towriting fiction under the name Nick Hooper. He has written three novels:Above The Void,The Occasional Gardener andThe Mirror in the Ice Cream Parlour, the latter two of which are detective thrillers. All can be found on theWaterstones website and onKindle. Alongside writing, he returned to his roots as aperforming guitarist, touring withGordon Giltrap MBE and supporting renowned folk musicians includingPeggy Seeger,Martin Carthy andThe Bookshop Band with his trio,The Boot Band. In summer 2019 he appeared onStrings That Nimble Leap, a double charity CD produced byFylde Guitars featuring 52 artists including Graham Coxon, Martin Carthy, Chris Leslie and Gordon Giltrap. In October 2019 he releasedA Wallet on the Sand, a tune composed for his most recent book,The Mirror in the Ice Cream Parlour.All books and CDs can be obtained directly fromwordandnote.com.

Filmography[]

Composer[]

• Enid Blyton (2009)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
• Einstein and Eddington (2008)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
• Prime Suspect: The Final Act (2006)
• The Chatterley Affair (2006)
• The Best Man (2006)
• My Family and Other Animals (2005)
• The Girl in the Café (2005)
• The Cost of Living (2005)
• Bloodlines (2005)
• Nature (6 episodes,1996-2005)
• Blue Murder (4 episodes,2004)
• Messiah: The Promise (2004)
• The Young Visiters (2003)
• State of Play (5 episodes, 2003)
• Loving You (2003)
• The Future Is Wild (7 episodes, 2003)
• The Heart of Me (2002)
• The Secret (2002)
• The Way We Live Now (4 episodes,2001)
• Tichborne Claimant (1998)
• Punch (1996)
• The Time Traveller (1993)
• Good Looks (1992)
• The Weaver's Wife (1991)
• Land of the Tiger (1985)

A fuller list is viewable onthe Nicholas Hooper Wikipedia page.

External links[]

• Nicholas Hooper onWikipedia
• Nicholas Hooper at theInternet Movie Database
• Interview with Nicholas Hooper
• http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/order_phoenix.html
• http://www.harrypotterorderofthephoenix.com/
• http://harrypotter.warnerbros.co.uk/site/index.html

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