Nitin Sawhney is one of the most distinctive and versatile musical voices alive today. Firmly established as a world-class producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, orchestral composer and cultural pioneer, Sawhney has become a latter-day Renaissance man in the worlds of music, film, videogames, dance and theatre.

Sawhney has scored for and performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, and collaborated with and written for the likes of Paul McCartney, Sting, The London Symphony Orchestra, A.R. Rahman, Brian Eno, Sinead O'Connor, Anoushka Shankar, Jeff Beck, Shakira, Will Young, Taio Cruz, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Ellie Goulding, Cirque Du Soleil, Akram Khan, Mira Nair, Nelson Mandela and John Hurt.

Performing extensively around the world, Sawhney works tirelessly for musical education, acting as patron of the British Government's Access-to-music programme and the East London Film festival and acting as a judge for The Ivor Novello Awards, BAFTA, BIFA and the PRS foundation.

He scored all 8 episodes of the BBC’s landmark series, 'The Human Planet' for the National Orchestra of Wales and in 2004, his music for Channel 4’s 'Second Generation' saw him nominated for the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Film and TV Composition. Sawhney has scored ad campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Nike and Sephora and Trailer scores include Hollywood release The Men Who Stare at Goats. He has released 8 studio albums, each garnering critical acclaim and has received no less than 15 major national awards for his album work alone.

Sawhney's substantial theatre/dance credits include the scores for Complicite's Olivier Award winning 'A Disappearing Number 'and Akram Khan's also Olivier award winning 'Zero Degrees' for which Nitin received a New York Performance and Dance Award for best score. After scoring Bahok for the Royal Ballet of China, Sawhney's latest composition for Khan's Vertical Road received this year's best new work Award in

Special score commissions include 'Neural Circuits' for the Britten Symphonia, 'Entanglement' for The Royal Opera House, 'Urban Prophecies' for the BBC Proms, 'Natural World Symphony 'for the BBC, 'Varekai' for Cirque Du Soleil, a pipe organ commission for the Royal Albert Hall and Hitchcock's 'The Lodger for Network'.

He won in May 2017 the Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Ivor Novellos.

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