He studied music at Oxford University and composition at the National Film and Television School (NFTS).He has worked on a wide variety of projects with varying subjects, requirements and budgets- from ambient music in the London and Paris Aquariums, to documentaries for HBO and the BBC- from films for Amnesty International, The New York Times and the Guardian, to commercials for Saatchi & Saatchi and Santander.In 2015 Nicholas was nominated for Best Composition in Feature Film at the International Music & Sound Awards, for his work on the critically acclaimed HBO feature documentary Night Will Fall. He is currently working on Where The Wind Blew, a feature documentary from the same team.