Nicholas Varley
- Music Department
- Composer
- Sound Department
Before turning to music full time Nicholas Varley worked for BBC Radio 2 in London, France Television in Paris, and Downtown Studios in Johannesburg. While in South Africa he started writing and arranging strings for commercials, such as "Amstel Lager" or "Sud Afrika Telkom". Upon returning to France in 1995 he scored several video games such as Syberia, short films, and more commercials (Rolex, Armani, L'Oreal...), until 2002 when he scored his first animated series, the BAFTA nominated Watch my Chops for Millimages. Since then he's worked predominantly in animation, having scored more than 30 series, and movies such as Trail of the Panda for Disney / Castle Hero Pictures, Lascars for Bac Films and Alpha And Omega for Splash Entertainment. In 2020 he scored the multi award winning short movie AnnA for Well done Jack Productions, and won "Best Score" at the World Premiere Film Awards in Los Angeles. In 2021 he's scoring season five and six of the EMMY nominated Molang. He speaks fluent English, French and Italian, and lives in Fontainebleau, France, with his wife and business partner Sybille, and his two children.