Jon Nicholls

Composer

Music / sound scores for theatre include: Spring Storm, Beyond the Horizon and The Holy Rosenbergs (NT); Bracken Moor (Tricycle); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Sheffield Crucible); Yerma (Gate); The Norman Conquests (Liverpool Playhouse); Red Light Winter, The Welsh Boy, deadkidsongs, The Double and the Spanish Golden Age season (Ustinov, Bath); The Wind in the Willows, Dancing at Lughnasa, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Eden End, Humble Boy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, In Praise of Love and the Young America season (Royal and Derngate, Northampton), Blue Remembered Hills, Art, The Changeling and Silas Marner (Theatre Clwyd); Rutherford and Son (Northern Stage); Katherine DeSouza, The Mothership and Linda (Birmingham Rep); Amadeus, Masterclass and Be My Baby (Derby Playhouse); Private Lives, Much Ado About Nothing, If I Were You, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, The Heretic and The Seagull (Library, Manchester); The Picture (Salisbury Playhouse).

Screen work includes scores for numerous TV documentaries and over 30 short films. Extensive music and sound design for radio drama includes: The Broken Word; Pink Mist; Erebus; Laurels and Donkeys; In Memoriam; At The Mountains of Madness; The Shadow Over Innsmouth; Between Friends; Babel’s Tower; Faust, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Caesar Price Our Lord; It’s Better with Animals; The Histories of Herodotus; The Time Machine; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and What I Heard About Iraq (Prix Italia Jury Special Mention). He has composed two operas: Falling Across and most recently Flicker which was premiered at Sadlers Wells earlier this year.

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