Nitin Sawhney
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Nitin is arguably the busiest, most versatile and most sought after composer and producer alive today. Having recently signed a lucrative deal with Universal Publishing, he has made 8 studio albums, for which he has been nominated for a Mercury Music prize, won a MOBO, 2 BBC Radio 3 awards and a Southbank Show Award, amongst 15 others.
He has scored over 40 films for cinema and television including two recent scores for live performance by the London Symphony Orchestra, two biopics, respectively about Brian Epstein and Jean Charles De Menezes and received an Ivor Novello nomination for the brilliant Channel 4 thriller Second Generation. His forthcoming work includes the orchestral music to the landmark BBC series The Human Planet and the score for Salman Rushdie's highly anticipated screenplay of Midnight's Children.
He has been a regular Dj with London club Fabric, performed around the world with leading orchestras and his band, composed extensively for renowned dancer, Akram Khan, gaining best composition award from New York for his music for Zero Degrees, and has composed for Olivier award winning work from Complicite’s A Disappearing Number. His career spans production and composition work with Sting, Cirque Du Soleil, Shakira, Paul McCartney, Jeff Beck, Tao Cruz, Imogen Heap, Anoushka Shankar and many others. Recently he has also scored for videogames, including Sony Playstation’s number one game, Heavenly Sword and the forthcoming Enslaved.
As the recipient of four Honorary doctorates from separate universities, fellowships from LIPA and Southbank University and considerable critical acclaim he also acts as a patron to many educational establishments, is now a judge for The Ivor Novello Awards, BAFTA, BIFA and sits on the board of trustees for London’s Whitechapel Gallery and Somerset House.
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