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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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productions '' Land of the Tiger'' and ''

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'' among others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award and an

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for Original Score in 2004 for '' The Young Visiters'' 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'' and ''

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'', for which he reunited with old friend director David Yates, with whom he had worked before on ''

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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 Grammy. 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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'', 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 Abbey Road Studios 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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. 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.

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* ''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'' (1997) * ''

'' (1998) *''Elephants of the Sand River'' (1999) * ''

'' (2000) *''Timeless Thames'' (2000-2001) * ''

'' (2001) - BAFTA nomination * ''The Secret'' (2002) * '' The Heart of Me'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2003) * '' Loving You'' (2003) *''DV8: The Cost of Living'' (2003) * '' State of Play'' (2003) - BAFTA nomination * '' The Young Visiters'' (2003) - BAFTA winner *''Tigers of the Emerald Forest'' (2003) * ''Messiah III: The Promise'' (2004) * '' Blue Murder'' (2004) * ''Nature'' (1996–2005) * '' Dad'' (2005) *'' Bloodlines'' (2005) *''

'' (2005) * ''

'' (2005) - BAFTA nomination * '' The Chatterley Affair'' (2006) * '' Prime Suspect: The Final Act'' (2006) - BAFTA winner * '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' (2007) * ''

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'' (2008) * ''

'' (2009) - Grammy nomination * ''Enid'' (2009) * ''

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'' (2009) * ''10 Minute Tales'' (2009) * ''Mo'' (2010) * '' DCI Banks: Aftermath'' (2010) * ''

'' (2011) * '' Stella Days'' (2011) * ''

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'' (BBC One Drama) (2012) * '' Chimpanzee'' (2012) * ''

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'' (2013) *''Winter Thaw'' (2016)

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