Nick Powell, a British musician & sound designer & member of Strangelove (EMI) has written scores for films, artworks & theatre including RSC, The National Theatre of Scotland as well as on Broadway.
Recently Powell has been working with Sam Mendes scoring The Lehman Trilogy (National, Broadway and LA) & The Ferryman (West End & Broadway) as well as acting as music consultant on the Oscar-winning film 1917.
Powell scored Spanish director Juan Cavestany’s feature Un Efecto Óptico, which premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival in September 2020.
In 2017, Powell scored the opening event the Edinburgh International Festival. In 2019 he co-scored Solar, a hugely ambitious live event in front of an audience of 100,000 people on the banks of the Danube in Linz, Austria. In 2017 & 2022 Powell scored the celebrations for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao’s 20th and 25th birthdays in audiovisual spectaculars projected onto the surface of the iconic building itself, attended by over 400,000 people.
In 2016 Powell was commissioned by The City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Birmingham Repertory Theatre to create Cold Calling: The Arctic Project in which a 20-piece orchestra joined actors performing against a backdrop of Arctic landscapes.
Awards include a New York Drama Desk & Spanish Premio Max as well as 2 Tony & an Olivier nomination.
In 2021 Powell released his first solo album of songs, Walls Fall Down, a thrilling & visceral response to the upheaval and chaos of turbulent times. The album featured various long-time Powell collaborators including:
Alex Lee (Massive Attack, Goldfrapp), Sarah Willson (Belle and Sebastian), Chin Keeler, Lucy Wilkins (Snow Patrol), Una Palliser, Rob Spriggs, & Calina De La Mare (Heist).
Many of these collaborators returned on Music From The Black Box, a 17-track collection of instrumental music released in May 2022.
In 2022 Powell composed the music for two of the four galleries at Frameless, a permanent immersive gallery in the heart of London. These soundtracks are released on all major platforms.