NICHOLAS JACOBSON-LARSON is a Los Angeles-based musician and screenwriter.

Music

Nicholas is Michael Buble’s musical director, arranger and conductor. With Michael, he has collaborated with a diverse array of artists and producers including Paul McCartney, Jon Batiste,  Jason Derulo, Willy Nelson, Hannah Waddingham, Jimmy Fallon, Leon Bridges, Greg Wells and Bob Rock. 

As a film composer, he has written scores for the Oscar-winning QUEEN OF BASKETBALL, and dozens of other films directed by Ben Proudfoot for Breakwater Studios and the New York Times. He has also composed scores for Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, Annapurna Pictures, FX, Syfy, Now This, Funny or Die, Red Bull, Unity, Stept Studios, Microsoft, Oakley, The North Face, Columbia, Charles Schwab, and others.

As a conductor, Nicholas has led recording sessions for LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND (Netflix), AMERICAN CRIME STORY (FX), THE HATE U GIVE (Twentieth Century Fox), and many other film and television projects, as well as live concerts for the HEAR NOW Music Festival (two world premieres by Andrew Moses and Anne LeBaron) and the west-coast premiere of Stefan Wolpe’s Quartet for Oboe, Cello, Percussion, and Piano at the Hammer Museum.

As a concert composer, Nicholas has written “Fits and Starts,” a chamber piece for the Contemporary Performance Collective, and three commissions for the Naples Philharmonic: “Story Box,” “Fantasia for Four Harps and Orchestra” (a quadruple harp concerto), and “The Snow Queen” (an educational piece for children, with narration by Dalton Leeb).

Screenwriting

With his writing partner Dalton Leeb, Nicholas wrote the screenplays for ENDURANCE (Netflix), HOT WHEELS (Warner Bros), THE FALL (Amblin), and THE FISHERWOMAN (Stampede) directed by Brian Kirk and starring Emma Thompson, Judy Greer and Marc Mancheca. THE FISHERWOMAN is currently in production for a 2025 release. 

The duo also wrote the 2017 Blacklist script, STRONGMAN, and have multiple other film and television projects in development. 

They are represented by CAA, Grandview and Jackoway Austen.