Julian Nott

Julian Nott will be forever associated with his ‘cracking’ music composed for those unique and loveable characters Wallace & Gromit, capturing with such musical and dramatic power the real essence and humour of the on-screen characters. He most recently co-scored the 2024 Wallace & Gromit film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl with Lorne Balfe.

Uniquely British, an original thinker, with an extraordinary ability to think outside the box, and to understand and capture the very essence of drama and character, combined with a wonderful gift for melody… all phrases that could be used to describe Julian’s talent. Having studied politics and economics at Oxford University and studied at the bar, Julian has had a varied career: investment banking, documentary producer, film director. However, he found his niche as a composer.

Julian’s credits range from the Oscar winning Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-rabbit to the serial killer thriller Death in Holy Orders. He scored Marcel Sarmiento’s Heavy Petting, set in New York, the controversial Mentorn satire, Confessions Of A Diary Secretary for ITV, which charted John Prescott’s time as Deputy Prime Minister, and the BBC’s adaptation of Flora Thompson’s autobiographical novel Lark Rise To Candleford. Further work includes the short feature for Aardman/BBC, Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death, which aired as a Christmas special on BBC1 in 2009 and for which he won the Ivor Novello Award for Best TV Soundtrack 2009, the one-off drama Ingenious, for CBBC/Lime Pictures, The Decoy Bride for director Sheree Folkson, CBeebies animated children’s series Bing and Peppa Pig and the BBC’s The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, directed by Sandy Johnson.