Nicholas Britell

Scoring to Picture Intensive: A three-day intensive on the history of film and the role of music in visual narratives open to all Juilliard students

2019 Fall Benefit: Succession Concert Suite coaching and performance with the Pre-College Orchestra View Program

Conversation Series With Nicholas Britell: A two-evening series focusing on classical music, film music, and the entertainment industry with Creative Associate Caroline Shaw and President Damian Woetzel View Program

Guest Artist at Scoring to Picture Class: Guest lecture for composition students on scoring for film and navigating the film and television industries

Artistic Collaboration in Film and Beyond: A Virtual Conversation with Creative Associates Nicholas Britell and Colman Domingo, Moderated by Creative Associate Raja Feather Kelly: A virtual discussion on artistic process and creative collaboration, including on the artists' work together on Barry Jenkins’ film If Beale Street Could Talk

Academy Award-nominated composer and pianist Nicholas Britell (Pre-College ’99, piano) is known for his scores, including for Barry Jenkins’ 2018 If Beale Street Could Talk and Jenkins’ 2017 Academy Award best picture winner Moonlight. Britell received Academy Award nominations for both those films as well as BAFTA and Critics Choice nominations for Beale. He received Golden Globe and Critics Choice nominations as well as the 2016 Hollywood Music in Media Award for best original score (dramatic feature) for Moonlight. The year before, he wrote the score for Adam McKay’s The Big Short, which marked the start of his collaboration with the Academy Award-winning writer-director-producer. In 2018, he wrote the score for McKay’s Vice, starring Christian Bale and Amy Adams. For television, Britell scores HBO's Succession, for which he won the 2019 Emmy for outstanding original main title theme music and the Hollywood Music in Media Award for best original score. In 2020, he was nominated for a second Emmy for outstanding music composition for a series for his score for Succession’s second season. Britell’s most recent film work is the score for Netflix’s The King, starring Timothée Chalamet. In 2019, Britell was honored by the World Soundtrack Awards as film composer of the year for his scores for If Beale Street Could Talk and Vice.

Britell is a Steinway Artist and is also a Juilliard Creative Associate. In 2018 it was announced that Britell would be part of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s creative collective brain trust as Salonen took the reins as music director of the San Francisco Symphony. Britell’s recent public performances have included concerts at London’s Barbican Hall, the Million Dollar Theatre in Los Angeles, Chicago’s Ravinia, and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Britell is an honors and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University as well as a piano performance graduate of Juilliard Pre-College, where he returned in 2016 as commencement speaker.

Britell’s upcoming projects include Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad series for Amazon and Succession’s third season.