Natalie Ann 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 an Ivor Novello Award-winning British television and film composer. She trained at the Royal Academy of Music and the National Film and Television School and had a career as a classical violist before becoming a film composer.

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. She recently completed the score for Adrian Shergold’s Sunday night drama for BBC1 My Mother And Other Strangers, and is currently scoring two further BBC1 dramas Three Girls with Swallows and Amazons director Philippa Lowthorpe, and Irish drama Redwater.

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.

In 2007, she formed RaVen Quartet, a London-based string quartet that performed arrangements of rock tracks. The quartet performed with Madness during the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremony.

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