Nicholas Britell

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Nicholas Britell was born in New York in 1980. He received classical piano training at the Juilliard pre-college programme, studied at Harvard and played there in an instrumental hip hop group. Those two worlds come together in his music. For Barry Jenkins's Moonlight (2016) he applied a hip hop technique, slowing down and lowering the pitch of a recording, to classical string music. In If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) he wrote lush strings and horns for a love story in Harlem. The title music of Succession (2018) sets classical piano and strings on a heavy hip hop beat and won an Emmy. For the Star Wars series Andor (2022) he designed a new sound world of his own.

Listening

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  Little's Theme · Nicholas Britell, 2016
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  Agape · Nicholas Britell, 2018
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  Succession (Main Title Theme) · Nicholas Britell, 2018

Discography

Studio albums

• 2015The Big Short (soundtrack)
• 2016A Tale of Love and Darkness (soundtrack)
• 2016Free State of Jones (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
• 2016Moonlight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
• 2016The Seventh Fire (soundtrack)
• 2017Battle of the Sexes (soundtrack)
• 2018If Beale Street Could Talk (soundtrack)
• 2018Vice: Original Motion Picture Score (soundtrack)
• 2019Succession: Season 1 (soundtrack)
• 2019The King (soundtrack)
• 2020Succession: Season 2 (soundtrack)
• 2021Cruella: Original Score (soundtrack)
• 2021Don’t Look Up (Soundtrack from the Netflix film) (soundtrack)
• 2021The Underground Railroad: Volume 1 (Amazon Original Series Score) (soundtrack)
• 2021The Underground Railroad: Volume 2 (soundtrack)
• 2021The Underground Railroad: Volume 3 (soundtrack)
• 2022Andor: Vol. 1 (Episodes 1–4) (soundtrack)
• 2022Andor: Vol. 2 (Episodes 5–8) (soundtrack)
• 2022Andor: Vol. 3 (Episodes 9–12) (soundtrack)
• 2022She Said (Original Motion Picture Score) (soundtrack)
• 2022Succession: Season 3 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
• 2023Carmen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
• 2023Succession: Season 4 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
• 2025Andor: Season 2 - Vol. 2 (Episodes 4-6) (soundtrack)
• 2025Jay Kelly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)

Other work

• 2016Moonlight
• 2018Succession (tv)
• 2022Andor (tv)

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Film Music Map^NL Map
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 3^NL Reader
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 8^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Prestige TV and streaming GenreIn Succession (2018), Nicholas Britell set classical piano and strings over a hip hop beat.

See also

• American indie film
• Prestige TV and streaming