Nitin Sawhney

Composer from United Kingdom
1964 in London, United Kingdom -

Nitin Sawhney is a British composer, producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, born in London in 1964 to first-generation British Indian parents and raised in Rochester, Kent. He plays piano, classical and flamenco guitar, sitar and tabla, and his work blends Indian classical music, jazz, flamenco, electronica and orchestral writing. He has released more than twenty studio albums, among them Beyond Skin (1999), Prophesy (2001), Immigrants (2021) and Identity (2023), and has written scores for more than sixty films and many television programmes, including Breathe (2017), Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) and the BBC series Wonders of the Monsoon. He also composed the score for the dance work Zero Degrees, which won a Laurence Olivier Award in 2006. In 2019 he reworked pieces by Satie, Debussy and Rachmaninov for Hélène Grimaud on the Deutsche Grammophon EP Memory Echo. His honours include the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award (2017) and a CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours, as well as several honorary doctorates from British universities. Source: Rondo DB

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Title Subname Catalogue Key Year Type

Memory Echo

2019-10-25

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Water

2016-01-29

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)