Nick Parkin is an Award Winning Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist & Sound Designer. He has collaborated on all of Marie-Gabrielle Rotie's works as a composer since 1994. They have also collaborated on numerous mult-discplinary and site-based projects.  ​ ​ His music career began in the early 1980's working for major Dance & Theatre Companies, and in the 90’s for a number of Ambient Music groups, while continuing his live and compositional work with Dance & Theatre,Companies, and in particular Butoh Dancers in the UK & Europe. He has collaborated on both live improvisations and albums with many artists including Clive Bell, Pete Lockett, Z'ev, Tuu, Tom Wallace, Stillpoint, Tom Gillieron, David Stevens and Alio Die (aka Stefano Musso). His work for Dance and Theatre has been performed in many of London's leading venues,The Royal Festival Hall,The Queen Elisabeth Hall,The Linbury and Claw Studio Theatre's at The Royal Opera House,The Lilian Baylis Studio Theatre Sadlers Wells,The Royal Academy of Arts,The V&A Museum,The Place Theatre,Riverside Studios,and The Bonnie Bird Theatre Laban Centre.  For the past 30 years, Nick Parkin has worked as an instrumentalist and composer for major dance and theatre companies in the UK including  Dance Gwylan, Paupers Carnival, Jeff Powell ( Extemporary Dance), Horse and Bamboo Theatre, DooCot, Katharina Vogel ( CH), Tetsuro Fukuhara ( J) Marie-Gabrielle Rotie  (all works since 1994) , Tanja Raman/Diversions and Lea Dance ( five works since 2002), Athina Valah and Candoco Dance. Anna Furse Athletes of the Heart, and Mladinsco Theatre Slovenia,  London College of Fashion,​ ​ He has worked extensively with Butoh dancers including Ko Murobushi, Tadashi Endo, Tetsuro Fukuhara (at Monaco Digital Dance Fourm 2000) Atsushi Takenouchi, Katsura Kan and Stefan Maria Marb. Stefan Maria Marb,Munich, and Marie Gabrielle Rotie London. ​ ​ His sound has featured on Radio drama and television and has been played in concerts all over Europe including WOMAD, Reading and several touring concerts in Italy He has featured in a number of BBC Music Programmes, and his Compositions have been used by the BBC and Channel 4 in the UK.   He holds an MA in Electroacoustic Sound Composition from the University of East Anglia. In 2002 he won a first prize in the prestigious Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition for his composition 'Magmas' presented in the Queen Elizabeth Hall London South Bank as part of London Sinfonietta's 'State of the Nation' Festival.   He was awarded a funded residency in STEIM Amsterdam in 2000, studying innovative interactive software programmes such as LISA (realtime sound manipulation software) and BIG EYE (realtime video software programme).   Recent commissions and live playing has included, Compositions for a film ‘Dust’ for award winning UK film maker Ray Jacobs 2019 and compositions used by Netherlands Broadcasting & the BBC 2020. Other more recent commissions include 'The Blooming' for Kew Gardens Temperate House 'Japan After Hours' events series 2021, 'The Cycle' for Fashion Designer Yuliya Krylova Art in the Docks London 2021, 'Tokyo Remix' with MG Rotie for the Ashmolean Museum Oxford 2021.   He has a number of solo and collaboration cd’s released in the USA and Europe, and on all major online platforms.His music has been broadcast internationally, and presented in festivals and concert venues in the UK and Europe. His music ranges from Atmospheric Electronic & Electroacoustic Soundscapes to Instrumental Contemporary Classical compositions. Some of his CD's can be found on iTunes,Spotify and other digital outlets world wide. ​ His latest releases 'HEMISPHERE' 2015, 'ETHERS' 2017 & 'ZIGGURATS' 2018, & ‘SUN CULT 2019, can be found on iTunes, Spotify,and most other Digital outlets World Wide. ​ Artistic Background ​ Nick originally trained in Fine Art and as a performer, studying Butoh in Paris in the Early 1980's and also in the UK with Mutsutaka Ishi and  Eiko and Koma, Noh theatre with Akira Matsue,  actor training with Yoshi Oida and Paupers Carnival . For 10 years he created landscape based works, touring Europe extensively.  He was awarded several residencies to create work including in Switzerland and Spain where he worked in collaboration with Swiss dancer Katharina Vogel. He also worked with Public Dreamers touring the Uk to great acclaim with work based on Ted Hughes Poems, funded by South East Arts/ ACE. ​ Nick also performed for Theatre of the Heart , Paupers Carnival and Welfare State International. He held residencies in Schloss Brollin Research centre in 1993 and 1994 during the EX-it! butoh choreographers exchange. He completed  a BA in Fine Art/community arts and performance  at Bradford College of Art in Yorkshire 1980-83. He has continually created paintings, photographs, performances, objects which revolve around his passion  for landscape and environment. ​ Teaching ​ Nick has been studying Zhan Zhuang Chi Kung with Master Lam Kam Chuen for over 30 years. He currently teaches Site Specific performance research for BA and MA students at Goldsmiths University of London,as well as workshops and classes for Butoh UK.