Aaron Nihal King is a highly versatile composer based near London, working across a diverse range of film, theatre and choral music. Aaron is an MA Composing graduate of the National Film and Television School, having graduated in 2017 from the University of Oxford with a 1st Class degree in Music.
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Film projects Aaron has worked on have seen nominations and awards at the Royal Television Society awards, the BAFTA Student Awards, London Independent Animation Festival and a variety of international festivals. He has worked as an orchestrator for BAFTA nominated composer Lorne Balfe on various projects including Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning part 1, Dungeons & Dragons: Honour among thieves, and Netflix series Life On Our Planet, and has also assisted composer Sacha Puttnam.
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Meanwhile in Musical Theatre, Aaron is the composer behind the music for Come Dine With Me: The Musical which debuted in summer 2024 at Norwich Playhouse, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and The Turbine Theatre, London.
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While Aaron enjoys writing works in a variety of media, his main focus is on music for film and musical theatre. While classically trained, he is highly versatile and his output spans a variety of genres, unified by a strong emphasis on melody and harmony in his work. In 2017 he won the inaugural Oxford University Music Society Composition Competition and he was also the winner of the 2019 Sir David Willcocks carol competition.
Aaron has been composing since the age of 7. He is active as an orchestral and choral conductor and regularly performs in a variety of contexts; he plays the Organ, Piano, Flute, and sings, both in ensembles and as a soloist. He achieved grade 8 with distinction in all of these at a young age and holds a performance diploma from the ABRSM.