Derek Nisbet specialises in creating music for unusual situations. He has composed music for a tight-rope walk on millennium eve (Tightrope Prelude), for a theatre show in an underground car-park (Wanderlust), for a closing hospital (Three Doctors) and for aerial dance in Trafalgar Square (Touch Don’t Touch).

He is best known as composer and film-maker with acclaimed company of artists Talking Birds, for whom he has written 18 theatre scores. His work has been performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (2 letters for orchestra and film with London Musici), the Lilian Bayliss Theatre at Sadler’s Wells, the Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera House, Coventry Cathedral and the Malmö Palladium, Sweden.

Derek has collaborated with choreographer Lisa Torun on dance, music and film projects in the UK and Sweden. He has scored aerial dance pieces for Blue Eyed Soul Dance Co and Ockham’s Razor (Arc) and his music has been heard on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction and BBC Radio 4's afternoon play (Cool Water Murder and The Balloonists). He is composer and musical director of Dr Pfeffer's Lonely Hearts Club by Craig Stephens and Jake Oldershaw, a series of four musical dramas for BBC Radio 4.