Nic Raine Studied Organ, Nic Raine Has Had a Special Collaborative Piano, Double Bass and Guitar
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nic|raine Composer|Conductor|Arranger nic|raine biography Born in London, Nic Raine studied organ, Nic Raine has had a special collaborative piano, double bass and guitar. As a con- relationship with John Barry. The two ductor he has appeared with the English have worked together for twenty years Chamber, Royal Philharmonic and Phil- on many films scores, including two Bond harmonia Orchestras, Academy of St. movies (A View to a Kill and The Living Martin in the Fields, Chamber Orchestra Daylights) ‘Enigma’ and on John’s highly of London, Czech Philharmonic Orches- acclaimed album ‘The Beyondness of tra, Ulster Orchestra, Royal Scottish Na- Things’. He has also arranged some of the tional Orchestra, Orchestra of the City of songs for Barry’s London west-end musi- Granada, the New Millenium Orchestra cal ‘Brighton Rock’. Nic has re-recorded de Gijon, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, many of Barry’s older film scores and a the Radio-Philharmonie Hannover NDR successful four CD set of the complete the SWDR Orchestra of Kaiserslautern James Bond music. and the Staaskapelle orchestra of Weimar and the Orchestra of the City of Quebec. He is accustomed to working with silent He has also conducted more than thirty movies having orchestrated many scores recordings of film music for Silva Screen for Carl Davis including ‘The General’, records with the City of Prague Philhar- Safety Last’, ‘The Kid Brother’, ‘The Four monic Orchestra. Horsemen of the Apocalypse’, ‘Wings’ and the ‘Phantom of the Opera’. Nic also recon- As an orchestrator and arranger, Nic Raine structed Chaplin’s score for ‘City Lights’ has worked on film scores with Miklos and Hugo Riesenfelds score for ‘Sunrise’. Rozsa, Elmer Bernstein, George Fenton, He has also conducted live performances Maurice Jarre, Howard Blake, Hans Zim- of James Bernard’s silent movie score for mer, Stanley Myers, Gabriel Yared, Mark ‘Nosferatu’ at the Royal Festival Hall and Ayres, Stanislas Syrewicz, Shaun Davey, performances of ‘The General’ at the Al- Kevin Kiner and Michael Kamen. For televi- hambra in Granada, Spain. sion he has orchestrated the Wallace and Gromit animation films ‘The Wrong Trou- sers’ and ‘A Close Shave’ for Julian Nott and ‘The King’s Beard’ for Philip Appleby. Nic Raine has worked with contemporary In addition to his work as an orchestra- artists having arranged tracks for Maire tor and conductor, Nic Raine has had Brennan (Clannard), Duran Duran, Aha, success as a composer, writing the mu- B.A. Robertson, Desree and Texas. He also sic for ‘Lon Chaney, Man of a Thousand orchestrated the ‘Liverpool Oratorio’ for Faces’, ‘Cinema Europe, the other Hol- Carl Davis and Paul McCartney. More re- lywood,’ ‘D.W. Griffith, the Father of cently, Nic has orchestrated the music Film’, and the short film ‘Bathtime’. He for the fantasy Sony Playstation games has co-composed the musical ‘Ludwig 2’ ‘Primal’ and ‘Medievil II’ and for Micro- with Konstantin Wecker and Christopher soft, ‘Kameo’ and ‘Viva Pinata’ I and II Franke which played in Füssen, Bavaria. and Sega’s Vikings, Battle for Asgard. He He recently compsed the score for the has also orchestrated 90 minutes of the Swiss film ‘Impasse du Desir.’ Einfügen popular synthesizer music of Jean Michel am Ende: Nic Raine just wrote the score Jarre, including pieces from Oxygene, music for “Der Mann mit den Fagott” a Chronologie, Magnetic Fields and Indus- family drama based on the book of Udo trial Revolutions for CD release. Jürgens. Other film credits are the Oliver Stone movie ‘Alexander’ for which Nic orches- trated, arranged and conducted music by Vangelis, and the Wallace and Gromit film ‘Curse of the Were-rabbit’! Collabo- rating with Kevin Kiner, he has recently orchestrated the Lucasfilm animated Star Wars picture Clone Wars. Nic also works in the French film industry hav- ing recently collaborated with Laurent Boutonnat on ‘Jacquou le Croquant’ and Philippe Sarde on ‘Les Temoins’, ‘La Prin- nic|raine cesse de Montpensier – director Bertrand Tavenier’ – and ‘Once I was’. biography nic|raine filmography 2011 Den kæmpestore bjørn 2005 I’m King Kong!: The Exploits of (conductor) Merian C. Cooper 2011 Der Mann mit dem Fagott (documentary) (orchestrator) (composer, conductor, orchestrator 2005 Garbo 2011 Impasse du Desir (documentary) (orchestrator) (composer, conductor, orchestrator) 2004 So Funny It Hurt: 2010 GoldenEye 007 Buster Keaton & MGM (Video Game) (orchestrator) (TV documentary) (composer) 2010 Once I Was 2004 Alexander (arranger, conductor) (conductor, orchestrator) 2010 Jackboots on Whitehall 2003 Das Wunder von Bern (conductor, orchestrator) (conductor) 2010 Die Prinzessin von Montpensier 2002 War Game (short) (conductor, orchestrator) (conductor, orchestrator) 2009 Zoomerne 2001 Ein Weihnachtsmärchen (conductor) (conductor, orchestrator) 2009 Hulk Vs. 2001 Heiraten für Fortgeschrittene (video) (orchestrator) (conductor, orchestrator) 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2001 Der Schneider von Panama (conductor, orchestrator) (orchestrator) 2008 Viking: Battle for Asgard 2001 Enigma - Das Geheimnis (Video Game) (conductor, orchestrator) (orchestrator) 2007 Until Death 2000 David Copperfield (conductor, orchestrator) (TV movie) (orchestrator) 2007 Jacquou le croquant 1999 The Clandestine Marriage (orchestrator, conductor) (conductor, orchestrator) 2005 Kameo: Elements of Power 1998 T.R.A.N.S.I.T. (short) (Video Game) (conductor, orchestrator) (conductor, orchestrator) 2005 Wallace & Gromit – Auf der Jagd 1997 Amy Foster - Im Meer der Gefühle nach dem Riesenkaninchen (orchestrator) (orchestrator) 1996 True Blue (orchestrator) 1996 The Portrait of a Lady 1993 Wallace & Gromit - (music conductor) Die Techno-Hose (short) 1995 Wallace & Gromit - Unter Schafen (orchestrator ) (short) 1993 Kreuzfahrt ins Jenseits (orchestrator) (TV movie) (orchestrator) 1995 Kino Europa - Die Kunst der 1993 Der Prozeß bewegten Bilder (orchestrator) (TV mini-series documentary) (conductor - 4 episodes) 1992 Chaplin (orchestrator) · Opportunity Lost (1995) (conductor) 1990 Harold, der Pechvogel (orchestrator) · Art’s Promised Land (1995) (conductor) 1990 Ausgerechnet Wolkenkratzer (orchestrator) · Where It All Began (1995) (conductor) 1990 Roger Corman’s Frankenstein (orchestrator) · End of an Era (1995) (conductor) 1989 The Rainbow (orchestrator) 1995 New York 3D (orchestrator) 1989 Scandal (orchestrator) 1995 Der scharlachrote Buchstabe (orchestrator) 1989 Fragments of Isabella (orchestrator) 1995 Cry, the Beloved Country (orchestrator) 1987 James Bond 007 – Der Hauch des Todes 1995 Mutters Courage (orchestrator) (orchestrator) 1987 The Best of British Cinema 1994 Ein Mann ohne Bedeutung (video documentary short) (conductor, (orchestrator) orchestrator) 1994 Die Witwen von Widows Peak 1985 James Bond 007 – (orchestrator) Im Angesicht des Todes 1994 Best of British (1988-1994) (orchestrator - as Nicholas Raine) (TV series documentary) 1984 Die verrückten Abenteuer Thriller des Robin Hood (conductor, orchestrator) (TV movie) (orchestrator) Battle Cry (conductor, orchestrator) Conflict (conductor, orchestrator) Chase (conductor, orchestrator) Management: DNMM, Daniel Neubauer Osterwaldstr. 10 Haus B Eingang 8 80805 München · Germany [email protected] · www.dnmm.de M. +49.176.22018102.