Natalie Holt

Natalie Holt
Born	Natalie Ann Holt
Nationality	British
Occupation	Composer
Known for	Paddington Wallander The Honourable Woman About Time The Impossible
Website	http://natalieholtmusic.com

Natalie Holt is a British television and film composer. She trained at the Royal Academy of Music and then the National Film and Television School and had a career as a classical violist before becoming a film composer. Holt was made an associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2017.

Holt scored the final series of Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh in 2016 and worked alongside Hans Zimmer on Woman in Gold. Working as part of Mearl Music with Martin Phipps she co-scored the BBC production of Great Expectations, which was nominated for a BAFTA award, and The Honourable Woman which won the 2015 Ivor Novello Award for best television soundtrack. Holt has written music for the hit ITV drama Victoria starring Jenna Coleman, as well as the modernist score for the avant-garde Spanish feature film Animals (directed by Marcal Fores) and also composed additional music and orchestration for Heyday Film's Paddington.

Recent scores include Adrian Shergold's drama for BBC1, My Mother and Other Strangers, drama series Three Girls, and Irish drama Redwater, due to be broadcast in May 2017. In 2017 Holt is scoring Saul Dibb's adaptation of RC Sherriff's WW1 play Journey's End starring Sam Clafin and Asa Butterfield, and due to score BBC2 adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera's novel The Boy with the Topknot.

Holt has played with orchestras touring the world, as a soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall and at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. As a performer Holt has worked with artists Kasabian, Madness, The Last Shadow Puppets, The Libertines, Ed Sheeran, Alt-J, Nicola Benedetti, Ellie Goulding, Lady Sovereign, Gwen Stefani, Elbow, Andrea Bocelli, George Micheal, Echo and the Bunnymen, Take That, and with songwriter Guy Chambers.

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