NIGEL WRIGHT

Orchestrator

Born 13th June 1955 in Bristol.  From an early age, Nigel’s interest in music was obvious and commenced with him playing in local brass, pop and dance bands.

In 1976, NIgel moved to London in response to job offers as conductor, arranger and record producer.  From this Nigel became producer and keyboard player for the jazz funk band Shakatak, who with Nigel at the production helm, went on to score a string of hit singles and albums through the eighties, selling millions worldwide.  During the band’s success Nigel left as a musician to pursue his career as a record producer.

Hits followed from the likes of Imagination, Mirage, Yell, Sonia and Take That, to name but a few.  Following a quirky pop collaboration, with hit musical producer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Bombalurina’s ITSY BITSY TEENY WEENY YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI – a UK No. 1).  Nigel progressed to co-produce all of Andrew’s Cast and Pop Albums, commencing with JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, which spawned another of Nigel’s No. 1 singles ANY DREAM WILL DO  for Jason Donovan, and followed with SUNSET BOULEVARD and STARLIGHT EXPRESS.

Other projects at this time included the cast album for GREASE, the 1992 BARCELONA OLYMPICS theme for Jose Carreras and Sarah Brightman, and recording SUNSET BOULEVARD songs for Barbra Sreisand and Elaine Paige.  The latter half of the nineties saw a continued hit rate, producing albums for Jose Carreras, Robson & Jerome, Michael Ball, Maria Friedman, The Woolpackers and most recently Steven Houghton.

At this point, Nigel’s talents also took a further expansion into TV and film.  Firstly with the hit TV drama AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ for Robson Green and Jerome Flynn for which Nigel wrote and produced the score, and quickly followed with Alan Parker’s hit movie EVITA on which Nigel produced the film soundtrack as well as the album with Madonna, Jimmy Nail and Antonio Banderas.  This gave Nigel a BAFTA nomination and EVITA a nomination for Best Sound.  In addition Nigel produced SHOOTING STAR for Boyzone from the Disney film HERCULES.

Current production projects include; SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (and orchestrator), CATS the video, the film SLEEPING BEAUTY for BBC TV and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s show WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND.