Biography
Anne Nikitin has scored a wide range of films from action-packed thrillers to emotional dramas, quirky comedies and epic natural history documentaries.
Recent films include Wootton Bassett: The Town That Remembers by acclaimed director Henry Singer for BBC One; the award-winning series Locked Up Abroad for five/National Geographic; America: the Story of Us, a landmark series for the History Channel introduced by Barak Obama; and Dead Happy, a comedy commissioned by Sky Movies and featured at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
In 2006, Anne won the BBC New Talent, New TV Composers Scheme. The prize was a commission to score a BBC Natural World film, White Falcon, White Wolf, which won a Merit Award for Music at the Missoula Wildlife Film Festival. Since then she has composed music for the BBC, C4, five, A&E, History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic and Sky Movies, as well as a range of independent films.
Anne was born in Canada to Romanian and Polish parents and grew up in various countries around the world. She obtained Bachelor degrees in English Literature and Music at McGill University in Montreal. As part of her classical training she experimented with contemporary music and in 2001 was awarded a SOCAN prize for Young Composers of Canada.
She went on to complete a Master's in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music in London studying with Joseph Horowitz and Academy Award winners Dario Marianelli and Gabriel Yared. In addition to her own work, Anne has assisted George Fenton on the BBC series “Life” narrated by David Attenborough, which was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award.
She is currently composing the score for The Imposter, a feature film produced by Film4 and A&E Indie Films.