Nik Ammar is an award-winning composer and songwriter who has composed for numerous TV programmes and films including:
Dirty Weekend, Winnie The Witch and Wilbur, Time For School, Terry Wogan and Mason’s Great Food Trip, Cutting Edge, The Truth About..., Where In The World, James Martin’s United Cakes Of America, Paranormal Witness and the BAFTA-winning Our Family.
Nik has supplied soundtracks and additional music scores for many other TV series such as Sons Of Anarchy, Shameless, Reign, Elementary, The Vampire Diaries, Six Feet Under, Panorama, Come Dine With Me, Location Location Location, Home And Away, Hollyoaks, Gardener’s World and Dragon’s Den, as well as music for the season 7 Game Of Thrones trailer and contributing to video games such as World of Speed and Project Cars 2.
His professional music career began as an instrumentalist and songwriter in the internationally acclaimed band Oi Va Voi, working with a variety of artists including KT Tunstall and Annie Lennox, and even performing for HRM The Queen at St James' Palace.
When Nik crossed into the world of media composing his work was quickly noticed and he went on to write and produce numerous adverts and trailers for Sky, National Geographic, ABC, FOX, Discovery, The History Channel, Nickelodeon, EPSN, Aveeno, Metrodome, and the British Film Institute.
In between all that he composed for the renowned theatre company Oily Cart, and scored the soundtrack to the black comedy feature film Dirty Weekend.
Nik’s scores have been described as charming, balancing romance, humor and tension seamlessly. He creates unique and original scores that continue to defy categorisation and blur the boundaries between musical genres.
Work history
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Composer (see website / IMDB for full creditsNik Ammar Ltd
Petersfield, United KingdomFreelance
Creating bespoke music for various productions ranging from TV series as such BAFTA-winning Our Family, Elementary, Stumptown and Tom Kerridge's Fresh Start; feature films and shorts (including Dirty Weekend, Chance Meeting); trailers and commercials (including Maleficent 2, Game of Thrones); video games (Sims 4) and theatre (Oily Cart).
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Ivors Academy JudgeIvor Novello Awards
- 79-81 Borough Rd, London SE1 1DN, UKFreelance
Judged Best Television Soundtrack
Skills
- Film Scoring
- Music Production
- Song Writing
- Music Composition
- Bespoke Music
- Music Mixing
Education
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Human SciencesOxford University
- Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ, UK
Awards
Best Live Action Pre-school - Our FamilyBAFTA
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Winner: Best Foreign Romance Trailer - Dirty WeekendGolden Trailer Awards
Winner: Best Foreign Romance Trailer for the black comedy feature film Dirty Weekend+ Show more