Nitin Sawhney is a producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist whose diverse repertoire encompasses over 50 film scores. He has released 10 studio albums, the most recent being Dystopian Dream in November 2015.

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 Bessie for best score. After scoring Bahok for the Royal Ballet of China, Sawhney’s composition
for Khan’s Vertical Road received a
best new work Award in Melbourne. Sawhney also worked with Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui on a production based on the life of Manga creator, Tezuka. Sawhney co- directed and appeared with Khan in
the internationally touring and award- winning production, Confluence created for the Svapnagata season at Sadler’s Wells which Sawhney also co-curated with Khan.

Amongst the many films scored by Sawhney, the most recent is Andy Serkis’ directorial debut Breathe starring Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield, which is opening the 2017 London film festival. Currently, Sawhney is working on the new Jungle Book again with Serkis for release in 2018.  He has also scored for high profile TV series (including the BBC’s multiple BAFTA winning series Human Planet and the BBC series Wonders of the Monsoon), Cirque
 du Soleil, as well as extensive work for video games (primarily Ninja Theory).  Nitin has also produced for many acclaimed and diverse artists from Sir Paul McCartney and Sting to Joss Stoneand Anoushka Shankar, as well as producing his own radio series on BBC Radio 2 – Nitin SawhneySpins the Globe.

For all the above, Nitin has been the recipient of a Mercury Prize, two Ivor Novello nominations, a MOBO award, two BBC Radio3 World Music Awards, The Southbank Show Award, 7 University doctorates from different British universities and most recently the 2017 recipient of the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award. Nitin has also collaborated with and scored for the London Symphony Orchestra as well as many other leading orchestras across the world. As a DJ Nitin has also released a number of successful club compilation albums, including Fabriclive 15.

In 2017 he received the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award, and is firmly established as a world-class producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, orchestral composer and cultural pioneer.

Sawhney has become a modern-day Renaissance man in the worlds of music, film, videogames, dance and theatre.  His endless creative curiosity makes him a formidable polymath across the whole artistic range of media associated with the music industry.

With over 20 studio albums to his name, including solo albums, film soundtracks and compilations, he has received a substantial wealth of major national and international awards for the work.

In 2018 Sawhney completed the entire composition of Warner’s big-budget blockbuster, ‘Mowgli’, released in autumn 2018.