NICK MAGNUS

BIOGRAPHY
Nick Magnus joined Steve's Hackett's band in 1978 starting an 11 year working relationship. The band toured extensively in Europe, the UK and the US, and Nick appears on at least ten of Hackett's albums to date.
The latter half of the 80's was spent doing session work with many diverse recording artistes such as China Crisis, Renaissance, George Martin, Mungo Jerry, Johhny Mars, Cilla Black, Jose Carrerras, Brian May, Richie Havens, Bonnie Tyler, Mike Batt, Classix Nouveaux, David Essex, Pete Bardens (Camel), Duncan Browne, Chris Rea, and Colin Blunstone.
In the 1990s there were album chart successes for Nick's co-productions of the Project D synthesiser albums and platinum sales for his productions and arrangements for the series of Pan Pipe Moods albums released by Polygram Records. Recent productions include Polygram's Celtic Dreams, which also enjoyed international success. He released his first solo album, Straight On Till Morning, in 1993.
In addition to this varied history as a composer, producer and arranger, Nick also penned the soundtrack to the cult horror film "Bloody New Year", and has subsequently gained much experience in working with music to picture.

He has also delivered lectures and seminars on many aspects of music technology and production and written diverse articles on these subjects for the music press.