Nick Foster is a British

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based in London. He is best-known for his work as a composer for television, commercials and film.

Career

Foster’s recent work includes Jack Whitehall & Freddy Syborn’s comedy-drama for Sky One, ''

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'', along with Daniel Lawrence Taylor's comedy ''Timewasters'' (ITV2) and ITV’s animated family adventure series, co-produced with Weta, '' Thunderbirds Are Go'' (written with his brother

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), now in its fourth year, and for which they were nominated for a Bafta in 2016. He has scored all of

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’s recent TV specials. His music also features in the Ryan Gosling / Michelle Williams film ''Blue Valentine'', and in Raoul Martinez and Joshua Van Praag's ''Creating Freedom: Lottery of Birth'', nominated for Best Documentary at

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. He has composed the music for Channel 4's charity initiative ''Stand Up To Cancer''. He also works as a composer of music for commercials; in this field his work has won numerous awards for original composition including D&AD, Clio, Craft and MAS. He has worked with directors including Jonathan Glazer, Joachim Back, Wim Wenders and Nick Gordon. Recent work includes "When You Love Something" for the BBC, directed by Vaughan Arnell, Steve Ayson's Grey Goose "La Pursuit", Specsavers "Boiler", directed by Danny Kleinman, and Apple's "Your Verse" campaign with Esa-Pekka Salonen. Other TV work includes scores for entertainment shows including '' The Cube'', ''

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'' and '' Penn & Teller: Fool Us''. He has also been involved in various music education initiatives, most recently Bafta Kids’ Big School Day, held at

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. Silva Screen Records has to date released two volumes of Nick & Ben Foster's score for ''Thunderbirds Are Go'', performed by the

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. Classically trained, Foster began his career in music as a record producer, writing songs and making records with

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Awards

*British Animation Award 2018 - ''Thunderbirds Are Go'' - nominated (with Ben Foster / Hackenbacker / Peacock Sound) * BAFTA Craft Award 2016 - Best Music - ''Thunderbirds Are Go'' - nominated (with Ben Foster) *MAS Award 2017 - Best Original Music for Television - ''Thunderbirds Are Go'' - nominated (with Ben Foster) *Kinsale Sharks 2017 - Best Original Music for Commercial - Visa 'The Heart' *BAFTA Craft Award 2013 - ''Derren Brown - Apocalypse'' *BAFTA Craft Award 2012 - ''Derren Brown - The Secret of Luck'' - nominated *BAFTA Craft Award 2011 – ''The Cube'' *Gold Clio Best Original Music 2008 – Sony Walkman 'Music Pieces' *

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winner Yellow Pencil Best Use Of Music 2008 – Sony Walkman 'Music Pieces' *BTAA Awards 2008 : Best 60–90 Second TV Commercial (Gold) – Sony Walkman 'Music Pieces' *BTA Craft Awards : Best Original Music 2007 – Ford “Own the Road Again” *D&AD winner Yellow Pencil Best Use of Music 2006 – 3 Mobile "Tuperzik"

Notable work

Television

*'' Thunderbirds Are Go'' - ITV 1 and CITV 2015–present (with

) *''Derren Brown - The Push'' - Channel 4 / Netflix 2018 *''Bounty Hunters - Cave Bear'' / Sky One 2017–present (with

) *''Timewasters - Big Talk'' / ITV2 2017–present (with Oli Julian) *''Penn & Teller : Fool Us'' – The CW 2015–present *''Hospital People'' - BBC One 2017 (with Oli Julian) *''Bigheads'' - ITV / Primal Media 2017 *''Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe'' - CBBC 2016 *''Derren Brown - Twisted Tales'' - Vaudeville / Channel Four 2016 *''The Code'' - BBC One 2016 *''Hank Zipzer'' - Kindle / BBC 2013-16 *''Stand Up To Cancer'' - Channel Four 2014 *''Puppy Love'' - BBC Four 2014 *''BBC Commonwealth Games 2014'' (with Peter Raeburn) *''Bad Robots'' - Objective / E4 2014 *''Crowd Rules'' - CNBC 2016 *''The Great Art Robbery'' - Channel Four 2013 *''The Cube'' - Objective / ITV 2009-15 *''The Job - Embassy Row'' / CBS 2013 *''Derren Brown - Apocalypse - Objective'' / Channel Four 2012 (with Ben Foster) *''Beauty & The Beast'' - Betty / Channel Four 2012 *ITV1 on-screen identities 2006–14 (with Peter Raeburn) *''Derren Brown - Placebo / The Experiments / Miracles For Sale'' - Objective / Channel Four *''Hero at 30,000 Feet'' - Objective / Channel Four *''Rocket's Island'' - Lime Pictures / CBBC (with Oli Julian) *''The Exit List'' – Gogglebox / ITV 2012 *''The Channel 4 Mash Up'' – Fresh One / Channel Four 2011

Film

*''Blue Valentine'' – "At The Drop of The Day" (composition with Matt Sweeney & Peter Raeburn) - 2011 dir. Derek Cianfrance *''Creating Freedom: Lottery of Birth'' (additional music) - 2013 dir. Raoul Martinez / Joshua Van Praag *''Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism'' (additional music) - 2015 dir. Christopher N. Rowley

References

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Discography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Foster, Nick English male composers English record producers English songwriters English television composers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people