Kingvention just announced their first speaker for this year Michael Jackson Fan Convention which will take place in London on October 28 & 29: Nicholas Pike.
Nicholas Pike, is an Emmy Award-winning British composer and songwriter with a wide stylistic range and facile command of both orchestral and electronic composition.
His work ranges from conducting the London Symphony Orchestra’s recording of his suite based on Athol Fugard’s play “Master Harold and the Boys” to scoring Michael Jackson’s epic videos GHOSTS and YOU ROCK MY WORLD.
His film scores span from Disney’s BLANK CHECK, CAPTAIN RON, and the animated THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, to MGM’s RETURN TO ME, to the darker world of Warner Brothers’ FEAR DOT COM and Stephen King’s SLEEPWALKERS, to name a few. Other music videos include Will Smith’s WILD,WILD WEST and MC Hammer’s TOO LEGIT and HERE COMES THE HAMMER. In the documentary world he has scored HBO‘s BAGHDAD ER and IN TAHRIR SQUARE, for which he won the 2013 Outstanding Music and Sound Emmy. Other documentaries include FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK in 2016, and the Native American epic, 100 YEARS, for which he also composed and produced the Academy short listed song “On Ghost Ridge”, performed by Yuna.
Other awards include the Elmer Bernstein Award for his score to LOVE OBJECT at the Woodstock Film Festival, and the Best Music Award from the Sitges Cinema Fantastic Festival for his score to the film, CRITTERS 2. His career in music started at age seven when he auditioned for and was accepted to the prestigious Canterbury Choir School in England, later continuing his music education at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Nicholas is known for his innovative use of instruments and sounds to create music and has become one of Hollywood’s most sought after composers.
Fan will be able to hear his experience working with the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
The venue has also been revealed few weeks ago:
The Glaziers Hall
9 Montague Close
London Bridge
London
SE1 9DD
For more information, visit KINGVENTION
