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CHRISTOPHER NIGHTINGALE

ORCHESTRATIONS & ADDITIONAL MUSIC

RSC: Matilda (Stratford/London/Broadway), The Plantagenets, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, A Clockwork Orange, The Plain Dealer, Pericles, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV Part I, Singer, Some Americans Abroad, Playing With Trains, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Changeling, Romeo and Juliet, Tamburlaine (all Musical Director/Keyboards).


TRAINED: Christopher was an organ scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge.


THEATRE INCLUDES: Ghost The Musical (Musical Supervisor/Orchestrations. West End and

Broadway); The Lord of the Rings (Co-Composer/Orchestrator/Musical Supervisor. London/Toronto); Yusuf Islam’s Moonshadow (Musical Supervisor/Arranger. UK and Irish tour); Bombay Dreams (Musical Supervisor/Co-Arranger. West End); Whistle Down the Wind (Musical Director. Aldwych); Oliver! (Musical Director. London Palladium); Miss Saigon (Assistant Musical Director. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). He also wrote additional arrangements and was the Musical Supervisor for The Pet Shop Boys’ Closer to Heaven (Arts).


FILM: Pride (Composer), Alan Parker’s Evita (Conductor/Vocal Coach).


CONCERTS INCLUDE: Celebration: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 50th Birthday Concert (Choral Musical Director. Royal Albert Hall); An Evening of Mozart with the Locrian Ensemble (Conductor. St Martin-in-the-Fields).


RECORDINGS INCLUDE: Matilda The Musical (Co-producer of original London and Broadway cast album), Ghost The Musical (Associate Producer of original London cast album), The Lord of the Rings (Co-producer of original London cast album).

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