Nick Wood

CEO & Creative Director

Award-winning commercial composer Nick Wood started his career in music production at the legendary Marcus Studio in London. Then at the age of 19, he signed with Virgin Records as the founding member of pop act, Appassionata. In 1991, Nick formed Syn Studios in Tokyo with longtime friend and collaborator, Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran.

As composer, recording artist, producer and arranger, he continues to score to picture, as well as write hit pop songs for artists. In 2002, his hit single, ‘Passion’ the theme song for Kirin Beer’s `Love Sports` campaign reached #1 on Japan’s International charts. The song will be celebrating its tenth successive year as Japan’s favorite sports tune and the unofficial supporters’ anthem for the Japanese national football squad in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. 

Nick’s eclectic music tastes have allowed him to collaborate with such diverse artists as Bebel Gilberto, Dr. John, Chris Corner, Graham Massey, Jon Hassell, Julian Lennon, Maxi Priest, Robert Palmer, Simon Le Bon, Tetsuya Komuro and Van Dyke Parks.

Nick began his film composition career creating the score for the Wim Wenders production, Dream Island. Since then, he has scored numerous movie soundtracks including 13 Kaidan (Masahiko Nagasawa’s award-winning thriller starring Tsutomu Yamazaki), To-I Umi Kara Kita Coo (Wood’s first score for animated film), and Mario van Peebles’ Love Kills.

His music has also been featured on The Dialogue Series, and licensed to TV shows such as NBC’s Robbery Homicide and HBO’s critically acclaimed, Sex and the City.