Nitin Sawhney

Biography

As a composer, producer and musician, Nitin is recipient of over 20 international awards, a CBE, an Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award, 7 independent honorary doctorates and has scored over 60 films (including Warner bros’ Mowgli for Netflix), numerous tv series, including BBC’s epic Human Planet series, made over 20 studio albums, 11 under his own name, his most recent being 'Immigrants' released through Sony Masterworks and has also scored extensively for theatre, dance and video games.

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Nitin is currently the Chair of Trustees for PRS Foundation, the UK’s leading charitable funder of new music and talent development. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and BAFTA. He has served as a member of an appointed advisory committee to the UK government on national musical education policy, is an associate artist with London’s Sadlers Wells dance venue and has served as trustee on numerous boards including London’s Somerset House and the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Nitin is currently a trustee on the board of London theatre company, Complicité.

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