Hello. I'm Nick Norton-Smith
 
Last Login: 1 years ago Joined: 1 years ago Name: Nick  Norton-Smith About Me: Film and TV Composer: Nick Norton-Smith 07976-930605 http://nortonsmith.com Nick Norton-Smith is an award winning multi instrumentalist and composer whose originality and diversity have ensured an eclectic and successful career in many areas of the music industry. Based in a central London studio writing and recording diverse and original music for film, TV, theatre, corporate and broadcast media encompassing many different musical genres. Commissions for a diverse range of briefs and projects include major TV networks, independent film makers, corporate animation, national daytime TV, primetime TV, short film, feature film, documentary, corporate idents, press launches, quiz shows, comedy, theatre, production music, sound design and LA horror features. Drawing from an extensive playing career that has included performances worldwide with numerous international artists including Frank Sinatra, the Brand New Heavies and the Proclaimers in addition to TV, theatre, radio, video appearances and studio sessions. Live performances form an integral part of compositions featuring some of London's finest instrumentalists - including members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Amy Winehouse band and Mark Ronson band. Clients include Talkback Thames, Gmtv, BBC4, Battersea Power Station., Evening Standard, Wired Video, Gruntworks entertainment, Pleasance Theatre Trust and many others. Recent commissions include the following: Animation: "Timothy" World’s first stop 3D stop motion animation http://timothyfilm.weebly.com/index.html Documentary: “Eyes on the the Kampar Peninsula” Copenhagen Climate Summit 2009 http://www.lifemosaic.net/kamparpeninsula.php Feature: “After Dark: Black Hollow” 2010 http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0850244/ ‘National Task Force” 2010 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155065/ “Seeing Smoke” 2009 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1975463 “Skeletons in the Desert” 2008 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031684/ “Shottas Paradise” 2010 http://www.shottasparadise.com Corporate: 2009 Pleasance Theatre Trust's 25th anniversary trailer http://www.pleasance.co.uk/edinburgh - click on " SEE WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT" Re-cycle trailer: 2009 http://www.re-cycle.org Advertising: Eclectic http://www.eclectic.tv Short: “Ladies Who Lunch” 2010 Cannes Film Festival 2010 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1377722/ “Wednesday’s Child” 2009 BAFTA premier 3.8.09 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1507389/ Comic relief trailer: 2009 Fallon ad agency http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCfGC_dGn4M Previous composing credits: Title music, beds and stings for award winning "LK Today" (GMTV ) 2007 Title music, beds and stings for London Evening Standard sponsored "Homes and Property" Series 2 (2007) and series 3 (2008) for TALKBACKTHAMES, Titles, beds stings and outro for Alex Horne/Mark Watson's award nominated "We Need Answers" comedy quiz show (BBC4 , Edinburgh 2007,2008) Sound designer " Counting Crowes" Edinburgh theatre festival 2008 Corporate ident, beds and stings Press launch Edinburgh International Festival 2008, Contributing composer 'Skeletons In the Desert" 2008 (GRUNTWORKS ENTERTAINMENT) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031684 Mememe animation 2008 Wired video Battersea Power Station corporate animation (PARKVIEW INTERNATIONAL) 2006 Testimonials: “Nick Norton Smith has worked with the Pleasance on a number of occasions, and each time has created an ideal score for the projects we have commissioned. The most recent was a short film celebrating 25 years of the Pleasance at the Edinburgh Fringe. The music Nick has composed not only compliments the film in terms of its style and pace, but also brilliantly captures the essence and atmosphere of the organisation. He is a pleasure to work with, and we very much look forward to the next time we can work together.” Anthony Alderson 2009 General manager/Producer Pleasance Theatre Trust Ltd "In the process of making both and educational and dramatic film on gun violence and bullying we needed to find a composer with the balance of reaching a youthful target audience with strong dramatic undertones required to carry tension of the piece throughout the film. Nick Norton-Smith was just that composer. His work and professionalism was a key component in allowing us to reach our deadlines and delivery our film on time and within budget while making no sacrifices in quality. Nick is an outstanding composer whom we will certainly approach again with future projects. David Chamberlain “Wednesday's Child” 2009 Nick Norton-Smith was recently commissioned to score the feature film 'Seeing Smoke' of which I was the writer and lead actor. When I first saw the screener for the film, I was amazed at how Nick's music captured the essence of what we were trying to say with the film. The music is sympathetic to the script and serves to highlight the emotional content in a truly remarkable way. I was really exceptionally pleased with Nick's work. I don't see how we could have done better. Patrick Maloney Screenwriter/Actor “Seeing Smoke” 2009 “Nick Norton-Smith provided the music for 'Seeing Smoke' a full length feature film set in the north of England. I was very impressed with Nick's professionalism. He hit very tight deadlines and delivered a superb score to the film. He captured the emotions of each scene brilliantly and the underscore to the Harry the main character almost told the story without the dialogue.” Glen Mortimer Director “Seeing Smoke” 2009 “With what was looking like an impossible deadline, Nick came up with a range of musical ideas to create the final score. Nick's work gave a great balance of hands off control which was ideal for this project. Thanks again Nick.” Gemma Sethsmith Director/producer LifeMosaic “Kampar” 2009 “The nature of the film Wednesday's Child dictated that the musical arrangement was crucial to the success of the film and it was vital that we found a composer that could work to a tight deadline and was able to cope with a constantly changing brief. We were lucky enough to stumble upon Nick who fulfilled our requirements perfectly.” “Nick was able to supply everything we needed, at short notice and often having to make changes on a regular basis. We were delighted with the results which have given the film the feel that we were looking for.” Steve Timewell Director BigScreen Productions “Wednesday’s Child” 2009 “We had a very tight deadline. Nick was patient and modified our existing soundtrack by giving us a live professional recording that was a great fit. He listened to what we wanted and delivered the goods, you can't ask for anything more. “ Rita Solanke Director “Re-Cycle The Story of the Bicycle” 2009 "I am convinced that Nick is the most patient man in the universe! I am not musical and yet I knew exactly the kind of title music I wanted for my series. Could I describe it? Nope. Could Nick translate my random thoughts into the perfect music? Yes. This was a complicated project. No time and many egos to manage and Nick did a brilliant job at making everyone feel part of the creative process. Once we put the music to our pictures the result was amazing." Benedetta Pinelli Series Producer “Homes and Property” Talkbackthames 2007/2008 "Nick was able to take a complex brief and work very quickly to produce a striking and catchy theme for the re-launch of Lorraine Kelly’s daily show on Gmtv. He stayed calm and focused when we changed our minds and moved the goalposts and was more than happy to produce revised versions at short notice a real boon for a TV producer. He also isn’t precious about his work and is happy to take on board suggestions and revisions whilst defending the integrity of his music." Helen Mcmurray Head of Programme Presentation Gmtv 2007 "Nick's score added the most important element to our animation... a human aspect. His evocative sounds were not only uplifting, but delivered the excitement and anticipation for the project that no "PR" words could describe." Jade Bell Creative Director - Battersea Power Station corporate movie Parkview International 2006 "When you're not at all musical, like me, it's quite hard to describe the sort of sounds you want for your fairly ridiculous comedy quiz. But after seeing just one preview and having a couple of conversations where I said things like, 'the music needs to be funny but serious, over the top but not too wacky, tense but still funny', Nick somehow managed to get it spot on, first time and helped give our chaotic show the professional element it so desperately needed." Alex Horne Devisor/ MD - “We Need Answers” BBC 4 comedy quiz show 2008 "Nick judged the tone of the show perfectly, and walked a fine tightrope between the grandiose and the silly to give our quiz the stamp of an authority it didn't really have." Mark Watson Comedian “We Need Answers” 2008 "When we got Nick's music the show stopped being a slight, divvy piece of nonsense and was transformed into a grand, divvy pile of nonsense." Tim Key MC “We Need Answers” 2008 Performing credits: Numerous International tours throughout Norway, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Monaco, Croatia, Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Russia, Japan, Malaysia, North America and Taiwan with extended engagements in Monte Carlo, Berlin and Tokyo with a variety of artists including: * Frank Sinatra * The Brand New Heavies * Shirley Bassey * The Proclaimers * The Temptations * Rose Royce * Pamela Anderson * Marti Pellow * Paul O’Grady * Bryn Terfel * Elaine Paige * Midge Ure * Ruby Wax * Frances Ruffelle * Paolo Conti * Paul Young * Ute Lemper * Gareth Gates * Bonnie Langford * Madeline Bell * Leo Sayer * Fish ( Marillion) * Tom Robinson * Then Jericho * Jayne McDonald * Lorna Luft * Charles Hazelwood - In addition to appearing with various support acts opening for * James Brown * Diana Ross * Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers * Ronnie Scott * Joe Cocker Numerous TV appearances and recording sessions worldwide including the weird and wonderful: “Car Wash” on Blue Peter with Rose Royce vocalist Gwen Dickie , performing contemporary classical music with Charles Hazelwood at the ICA London, miming on German TV with an oompah band , pop videos , Radio 2 broadcasts, numerous sessions including punk legends GBH and their dog(!), BBC1 , BBC 2, BBC3 ,ITV1, Channel 4, Russian, Japanese, Taiwanese and Norwegian TV appearances. To date Nick Norton-Smith has performed in 16 West End shows including Michael Grandage’s Olivier award winning “Grand Hotel” . Current Zip: SW11 6HT Resident Country: United Kingdom Phone: Free Membership - Phone not available
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