Nick Foster


Nick Foster is a multiple BAFTA-winning British composer and music producer 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, Bounty Hunters, along with Daniel Lawrence Taylor's comedy Timewasters and ITV’s animated family adventure series, co-produced with Weta, Thunderbirds Are Go, now in its fourth year, and for which they were nominated for a Bafta in 2016.
He has scored all of Derren Brown’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 Raindance Film Festival. 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, Bigheads and.
He has also been involved in various music education initiatives, most recently Bafta Kids’ Big School Day, held at Alexandra Palace.
Silva Screen Records has to date released two volumes of Nick & Ben Foster's score for Thunderbirds Are Go, performed by the City of Prague Symphony Orchestra.
Classically trained, Foster began his career in music as a record producer, writing songs and making records with Gary Barlow, S Club 7, East 17 and Kylie Minogue.

Awards

Television