Natalie Holt
Born
Natalie Ann Holt

(1982-06-29) 29 June 1982
Worthing, West Sussex, England[1]
Alma materRoyal Academy of Music
Children1
Musical career
Occupation(s)Composer
Years active2005–present
Websitenatalieholt.com

Natalie Ann Holt is a British composer 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 (2021–2023). 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] In 2022, Holt had worked on composing the score for Batgirl, a film that was ultimately canceled during production.[11][12]

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.[13] Holt has a daughter.[14]

In the 2013 final of Britain's Got Talent, Holt was performing in the backing orchestra of finalists Richard & 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".[15]

Discography

Film

Year Title Notes
2005Heavy Metal Jr.
2007StardustMusic production assistant
2011The HoldingComposed with James Edward Barker
Mesocafé
2012Animals
2013Chinese Lessons
A Class of Their Own
2015Woman in GoldAdditional composer
2017Pin Cushion
Journey's EndComposed with Hildur Guðnadóttir
2018Gun No 6
2019Cordelia
2020Infidel
Herself
KindredComposed with Jack Halama
2022The Princess

Television

Year Title Notes
2008The Things I Haven't Told YouTelevision film
20093MW: Subtitles Not Included
2011Great ExpectationsThree episodes, composed with Martin Phipps (Two episodes)
2012Tooned
2013Britain's Got TalentThe Egg Throwing Woman
2014The Honourable WomanComposed with Martin Phipps (8 episodes)
2015Wallander
2016The Happos Family
My Mother and Other Strangers
2017Three Girls
Kat & Alfie: Redwater
The Boy with the TopknotTelevision film
2018Press6 episodes
Doing MoneyTelevision film
2019KnightfallSeason 2 (8 episodes)
Beecham House6 episodes
Sticks and Stones3 episodes
2020Deadwater Fell4 episodes
2021–presentLoki12 episodes (Also cameo as Accordion Player Season 2 Episode 4)
2022Obi-Wan Kenobi6 episodes, composed with John Williams (Theme)

Short films

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

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). "Parents of Britain's Got Talent final egg-thrower Natalie Holt blame musician pals for 'putting her up to' protest". The Daily Mirror. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  7. "Natalie Holt – Emmy Nominations". Emmys. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  8. Bradshaw, Peter (1 February 2018). "Journey's End Review". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  9. Betancourt, David (8 June 2021). "'Loki' is a dark and tricky delight that continues Marvel's success at Disney Plus". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  10. Breznican, Anthony (22 April 2022). "'Obi-Wan Kenobi' Composer Natalie Holt Reveals "Haunting" Approach". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  11. Oddo, Marco Vito (23 September 2021). "'Loki' Composer Natalie Holt Will Score 'Batgirl' Film for HBO Max". Collider. Archived from the original on 23 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  12. Couch, Aaron (21 August 2022). "Loki Composer Natalie Holt on Finding the Title Theme and Landing Danny Elfman's Blessing for Batgirl". The Hollywood Reporter. PMRC.
  13. "Natalie Holt". British Music Collection. 27 February 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  14. Bradshaw, Paul (26 June 2022). "How to score a 'Star Wars' series, according to 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' composer Natalie Holt". NME. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  15. Holt, Natalie (10 June 2013). "Why I pelted Simon Cowell with eggs". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
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