Anne Nikitin is an award-winning composer who has scored a wide range of films from action-packed thrillers to emotional dramas, quirky comedies and epic natural history productions.

Her most recent score is for "The Imposter", a feature film directed by Bart Layton produced by Film4 and A&E Indie Films, officially selected for Sundance Film Festival 2012.

Other recent films include the award-winning series Locked Up Abroad for National Geographic; Wootton Bassett: The Town That Remembers by acclaimed director Henry Singer for BBC One; America: the Story of Us, a landmark series for the History Channel introduced by Barak Obama; and Crusaders: Back From the Dead directed by Matthew Catling for Channel4.

In 2006, Anne won the BBC New Talent, New TV Composers Scheme. The prize was a commission to score a BBC Natural World film, White Falcon, White Wolf, which won a Merit Award for Music at the Missoula Wildlife Film Festival. Since then she has composed music for the BBC, C4, five, A&E, History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic and Sky Movies, as well as a range of independent films.

Anne was born in Canada to Romanian and Polish parents and grew up in various countries around the world. She obtained Bachelor degrees in English Literature and Music at McGill University in Montreal where she experimented with contemporary music techniques. In 2001 she was awarded a SOCAN prize for Young Composers of Canada.

She completed a Master's in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music in London studying with Academy Award winners Dario Marianelli and Gabriel Yared and has assisted George Fenton on the BBC series “Life” narrated by David Attenborough, which was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award.

Anne works from her studio in North London.