Nick Norton-Smith Profile Page on Nextcat.com

Nick Norton-Smith is an award winning musician whose originality and diversity have ensured a long and successful career.

This includes film, TV and theatre commissions and collaborations with a diverse range of artists - from Frank Sinatra to independent film makers - and whose music is heard by over 6 million people a week on National UK television.

Both a composer and performer Nick Norton-Smith is based in central London writing and recording diverse and original music for film, TV and corporate media.

Clients include GMTV, Talkback Thames and Battersea Power Station.

Current commissions include a wildlife documentary, 2 corporate trailers,Japanese toy advert, 3 short films and a UK government schools trailer.

Recent film credits include animation, short film, UK national TV, commercials and corporate trailers, contributing composer to recent horror feature "Skeletons"- LA independent horror feature.

After a debut commission for a Battersea Power Station animation requiring a bespoke music score other broadcast and corporate media clients rapidly followed.

Both as a music arranger, composer and performer Nick Norton-Smith’s composing service for film, commercial and TV music reflects the diversity of scoring to picture briefs, including orchestral, modern chamber, dance, jazz, funk and choral idioms.

As a performer Nick Norton-Smith has toured, recorded and performed worldwide with many International artists including:

Frank Sinatra
The Brand New Heavies
Shirley Bassey
The Proclaimers
The Temptations
Marti Pellow
Bryn Terfel
Elaine Paige
Midge Ure
Paolo Conti
Paul Young
Rose Royce
..........and numerous others

In addition to this Nick Norton-Smith has been much in demand in London’s West End performing in 15 West End shows including Olivier Best Musical Winner “Grand Hotel” at the Donmar warehouse and numerous TV appearances.

Winner “Best Musician” Edinburgh International Jazz Festival

CREDITS

"I am convinced that Nick is the most patient man in the universe! I am not musical and yet I knew exactly the kind of title music I wanted for my series. Could I describe it? Nope. Could Nick translate my randon thoughts into the perfect music? Yes. This was a complicated project. No time and many egos to manage and Nick did a brilliant job at making everyone feel part of the creative process. Once we put the music to our pictures the result was amazing."
Benedetta Pinelli
Series Producer Homes and Property
TalkbackThames

"Nick was able to take a complex brief and work very quickly to produce a striking and catchy theme for the re-launch of Lorraine Kelly’s daily show on GMTV. He stayed calm and focused when we changed our minds and moved the goalposts and was more than happy to produce revised versions at short notice – a real boon for a TV producer. He also isn’t precious about his work and is happy to take on board suggestions and revisions whilst defending the integrity of his music."
Helen McMurray
Head of Programme Presentation
GMTV

"Nick's score added the most important element to our animation... a human aspect. His evocative sounds were not only uplifting, but delivered the excitement and anticipation for the project that no "PR" words could describe."
Jade Bell
Creative Director - Battersea Power Station corporate movie
Parkview International

"When you're not at all musical, like me, it's quite hard to describe the sort of sounds you want for your fairly ridiculous comedy quiz. But after seeing just one preview and having a couple of conversations where I said things like, 'the music needs to be funny but serious, over the top but not too wacky, tense but still funny', Nick somehow managed to get it spot on, first time and helped give our chaotic show the professional element it so desperately needed."
Alex Horne
Devisor/ MD - “We Need Answers” comedy quiz show

"Nick judged the tone of the show perfectly, and walked a fine tightrope between the grandiose and the silly to give our quiz the stamp of an authority it didn't really have."
Mark Watson
Comedian - “We Need Answers”

"When we got Nick's music the show stopped being a slight, divvy piece of nonsense and was transformed into a grand, divvy pile of nonsense."
Tim Key