A composer of film and television music in his own right, Nic Raine is best known among colleagues for his decades of work as an orchestrator and conductor of film scores. He collaborated with John Barry for over 20 years, and his other credits span Vangelis, Paul McCartney, and Wallace & Gromit.
Born in London, England, Raine studied piano, organ, guitar, and double bass in his youth. He began to find work orchestrating music for the screen in the early '80s, eventually landing a position in the music department of the James Bond film A View to Kill, released in 1985. It w...