Nicholas Hooper

British composer

Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer and guitarist. He has scored the award-winning BBC productions Land of the Tiger and Andes to Amazon, as well as the TV movies The Girl in the Café and My Family and Other Animals among others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award and an Ivor Novello Award 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.

He studied at the Royal College of Music in the early 1970s where he scored his first films.

His highest-profile scores were for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, for which he reunited with old friend director David Yates, with whom he had worked before on The Tichborne Claimant, The Way We Live Now, 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 Alexandre Desplat.

Hooper then scored the soundtrack to the Disney documentary African Cats, which was chosen as one of the 97 original scores eligible for a nomination at the 84th Academy Awards 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 Fylde Guitars, alongside Graham Coxon and Chris Leslie. 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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Works

A Journey to Hogwarts
A Journey to Hogwarts / Fireworks
Amazon Mysteries
Andes to Amazon
Another Story
Ariel View of the Himalayas
Arrival
Baby Turtles Take to the Sea
Bathing Beauties
Children of the Amazon
Cold Night On The Mountain
Dawn Mist in Kaziranga
Dawn Wakes the River
Death on the Amazon
Desert Ass Dance
Duelling Spiders
Dumbledore's Farewell
Dumbledore's Foreboding
Dumbledore's Speech
El Nino–fire and Silence
Elephants Swimming
Elephants: Subdued Then Revered
End Titles
Farewell Aragog
Fast Movers Into Thin Air
Flamingos–the Great Journey
Flight of the Order of the Phoenix
Following the Grand Currents
Fort Rajasthan
From the Andes
From the Mountains
From the Mountains to the Sea
Getting Wet
Ginny
Hall of Prophecy
Harrier Hawk Chases Teal
Harry & Hermione
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Himalayan Glacier
Holy Man
Hornbills in Flight
In noctem
Inferi in the Firestorm
Insects, Chamelions and Flying Lizards
Into the Pensieve
Into the Rushes
Journey to the Cave
Kanha Dawn
Leaping Gibbons
Living Death
Lost Worlds
Loved Ones and Leaving
Magical Lights of the Plains
Malfoy's Mission
Manta Rays
Misty Sands
Monkeys Play but Tigers Kill
Myths and Ashes
Oceans of Plenty
Of Love & War
Opening
Opening Titles
Out of the Seas–a Great Continent
Patagonian Wind
Professor Umbridge
Race to the Edge of the World
Rituals and Nature in Ladakh
Ron's Victory
Sacred Snakes, Coral Jewels and Convict Tangs
School!
Silver Rings in the Amazon
Sirius Deception / Dumbledore's Army
Slughorn's Confession
Snape & the Unbreakable Vow
Song of the Amazon
Sorcerers Seas
The Book
The Clever Ratel
The Drink of Despair
The Flooded Plains
The Friends
The Great Plains
The Killing of Dumbledore
The Power of the Sea
The Room of Requirement
The Slug Party
The Story Begins
The Weasley Stomp
Tiger Menace
To the Amazon
Up Into the Himalayas
Waterfalls
Whale Shark
When Ginny Kissed Harry
Wizard Wheezes
Wolves Chase Black Buck