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Natalie Holt
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Background information
Birth nameNatalie Ann Holt
BornWorthing, West Sussex, England[1]
OccupationComposer
InstrumentsPiano
keyboards
synthesizer
violin
Years active2005-present
Websitenatalieholt.com

Natalie Ann Holt is a British composer and violinist who has worked on numerous film and television projects. She is primarily recognised for her work on several notable productions, including Paddington (2014) and Loki (2021). She trained at the Royal Academy of Music and then the National Film and Television School and had a career as a classical violinist before becoming a film composer. Holt's distinction in her field was recognised by being made an associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2017.

Career

Holt's early contributions include minor roles as orchestrator and copyist on films such as Stardust. After graduating, she composed her own music for a number of short films, including the Royal Television Society award-winning short Friends Forever (2008), while working as a professional violinist. In 2007, she became part of RaVen Quartet, a London-based string quartet that performed their own musical arrangements.[2][3][4] RaVen would go on to perform with Madness during the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremony.[5] By this time, the group had also played for Prince Harry at Buckingham Palace and were part of George Michael's Symphonica tour.[6]

Holt's breakthrough in composing came in 2012, when she worked with Martin Phipps on Great Expectations, which was nominated for a BAFTA award for Best Score. Holt then co-composed with Phipps for the BBC drama The Honourable Woman, for which they jointly won the 2015 Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Soundtrack, and were nominated again for a BAFTA. She most recently collaborated with Phipps in 2017 for Victoria, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category of "Outstanding Music Composition for a Series".[7]

Holt subsequently wrote the original scores for a number of other high-profile television dramas including the multiple BAFTA award-winning and Royal Television Society winning score for Philippa Lowthorpe's drama series Three Girls. Holt has also worked on My Mother and Other Strangers, the final series of Wallander, and the BBC adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera's novel The Boy With The Topknot. In addition, she has scored two BBC TV series written by BAFTA award-winning playwright Mike Bartlett (Press and Sticks and Stones), Gurinder Chada's 2018 series Beecham House, and in 2020 was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for her score to ITV drama Deadwater Fell.

Holt has also composed music for a number of films including Saul Dibb's film adaptation Journey's End, for which she jointly won Best Score at Beijing International Film Festival with Hildur Guðnadóttir. Peter Bradshaw named the score in his BAFTA predictions of 2018, and the score was described as "sinuously driving the narrative momentum" and "creating a sense of horror and dread".[8] Holt wrote additional music for Heyday Film's Paddington. and the score for the first feature from Deborah Haywood, Pin Cushion, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2018. In 2019, she worked on Infidel and Herself. She has most recently worked on the Marvel Studios Disney+ series Loki, which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and was described in the Washington Post as delivering "a suspenseful and mysterious vibe while providing Marvel's horned menace with a theme song that might just be the MCU's best".[9] In 2022, it was announced that Holt would serve as composer for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series for Disney+, becoming the first woman to ever score a live-action Star Wars project.[10]

Holt was named in The Times Film Composer's watch list in 2018, alongside Daniel Pemberton, Jed Kurzel and Gustavo Santaolalla.

Personal life

Holt was born in Worthing, West Sussex, studied violin at the Royal Academy of Music and composing at the National Film and Television School. She resides in London.[11]

In the 2013 final of Britain's Got Talent, Holt was performing in the backing orchestra of finalists Richard and Adam. During their performance she walked on stage and threw eggs at the judge, Simon Cowell. She was protesting Cowell's "dreadful influence on the music business".[12]

Discography

Film

Year Title Notes
2005 Heavy Metal Jr.
2007 Stardust Music production assistant
2011 The Holding Composed with James Edward Barker
Mesocafé
2012 Animals
2013 Chinese Lessons
A Class of Their Own
2015 Woman in Gold Additional composer
2017 Pin Cushion
Journey's End Composed with Hildur Guðnadóttir
2018 Gun No 6
2019 Cordelia
2020 Infidel
Herself
Kindred Composed with Jack Halama
2022 Batgirl

Television

Year Title Notes
2008 The Things I Haven't Told You Television film
2009 3MW: Subtitles Not Included
2011 Great Expectations Three episodes, composed with Martin Phipps (Two episodes)
2012 Tooned
2013 Britain's Got Talent The Egg Throwing Woman
2014 The Honourable Woman Composed with Martin Phipps (8 episodes)
2015 Wallander
2016 The Happos Family
My Mother and Other Strangers
2017 Three Girls
Kat & Alfie: Redwater
The Boy with the Topknot Television film
2018 Press 6 episodes
Doing Money Television film
2019 Knightfall Season 2 (8 episodes)
Beecham House 6 episodes
Sticks and Stones 3 episodes
2020 Deadwater Fell 4 episodes
2021 Loki 6 episodes
2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi 6 episodes, composed with John Williams (Theme)

Short films

Year Title Notes
2007 Dupe
Moog
1977
Our Footsteps in the Leaves
The Other Half
The End for Beginners
Friends Forever
2008 Survivor
The Clap Dudes
2009 Echoes
2011 Gato encerrado
2014 The Feminist Car Commercial
2019 Rachel

References

  1. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007
  2. ^ "Raven – The String Quartet That Rocks". Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  3. ^ Interview: RaVen Quartet, M Magazine, 31 October 2012
  4. ^ "Raven: 400 years of music in 40 minutes". BBC Breakfast. 22 September 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
  5. ^ "The Raven Quartet, Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall". Big Issue. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  6. ^ Leigh, Rob (11 June 2013). "Natalie Holt as part of Raven". The Daily Mirror. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Natalie Holt – Emmy Nominations". emmys.com. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Journey's End Review". theguardian.com. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  9. ^ "'Loki' is a dark and tricky delight that continues Marvel's success at Disney Plus". Washington Post. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  10. ^ "'Obi-Wan Kenobi' Composer Natalie Holt Reveals "Haunting" Approach". Vanity Fair. 22 April 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  11. ^ "Natalie Holt". British Music Collection. 27 February 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Why I pelted Simon Cowell with eggs | Natalie Holt". the Guardian. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
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