ABOUT

Natalie Holt is a multi-award winning British composer and winner of the prestigious Television Composer of the Year award at the 2024 World Soundtrack Awards. She is also the first woman to score a live action Star Wars project.

Her numerous film and television credits include the Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+) with John Williams, the Marvel television series Loki and Loki 2(starring Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson), the Netflix film Fever Dream (directed by Claudia Llosa) the BBC’s Wallander (starring Kenneth Branagh), Knightfall (starring Mark Hamill), Paddington (starring Hugh Bonneville), Deadwater Fell (starring David Tennant), the award-winning BBC drama Three Girls and the recent hit series Rivals (Disney+).

She co-scored the WW1 film Journey’s End with Oscar winner Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker), The Honourable Woman and Victoria with Martin Phipps (The Crown) and composed additional music for Hans Zimmer and Martin Phipps on the film Woman in Gold.

An accomplished violinist and violist, she trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the National Film & Television School and has performed at the Royal Albert Hall and the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. She is known for her experimental string-based scores, on which she plays violin, piano and vintage synthesizer, as well as for her large orchestral music which she records at London’s Abbey Road Studios.

She won the prestigious Ivor Novello award in 2015, was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2017, was nominated for an Emmy award and won the Best International Score at the Beijing International Film Festival in 2018 for her score on Journey’s End with Hildur Guðnadóttir. Natalie is also a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.

Natalie moves between London and Los Angeles.

ALBUMS

THEATRICAL + IMMERSIVE

WES ANDERSON’S “THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL” (secret cinema)

Natalie wrote, produced and music directed all the music and musical performances for the Secret Cinema performances of The Grand Budapest Hotel, which also served as the official European premiere of the film.

COEN BROTHER’s “MILLER’s CROSSING” (SECRET CINEMA)

Natalie wrote, produced and music directed all the music and musical performances for the Secret Cinema performances of Miller’s Crossing.