Nitin Sawhney

国籍：英国

出生地：英国罗彻斯特

生日：1964年

职业：制作人，歌曲作者，多乐器演奏家，管弦乐作曲家

Nitin Sawhney是当今最具特色和多才多艺的音乐声音之一。作为世界一流的制片人，歌曲作者，DJ，多乐器演奏家，管弦乐作曲家和文化先锋，Sawhney已经成为世界级音乐，电影，电子游戏，舞蹈和戏剧等世界文艺复兴时期的人物。

从艺历程：Nitin Sawhney was raised in Rochester, Kent, England, by Punjabi immigrant parents. As a child he studied piano, classical and flamenco guitar, sitar and tabla.

Subsequently, he studied law at Liverpool University for a short time.[1]

It was during this period that Sawhney met up with a school friend, acid-jazz keyboard-player James Taylor. Sawhney then toured as part of The James Taylor Quartet.[2] This experience led to him forming his own band, The Jazztones. He also joined forces with tabla player and DJ/producer Talvin Singh to form the Tihai Trio.[3]

After dropping out of university, Sawhney trained as an accountant until leaving his job as a financial controller of a hotel to pursue his promising career in music. Sawhney moved to London, where he met up with old university friend Sanjeev Bhaskar; together they created the comedy team The Secret Asians. The pair were given a show on BBC Radio, which eventually grew into the award-winning BBC TV sketch show Goodness Gracious Me.[4] Refocusing on music, Sawhney's solo career began in 1993, when he released his debut album, Spirit Dance on his own label.

Sawhney has scored for and performed with 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, Jacob Golden, Anoushka Shankar, Jeff Beck, Shakira, Will Young, Joss Stone, Taio Cruz, Ellie Goulding, Horace Andy, Cirque Du Soleil, Akram Khan, Deepa Mehta, Mira Nair, Nelson Mandela and John Hurt. Performing extensively around the world, he has achieved an international reputation across every possible creative medium.

Often appearing as Artist in Residence, Curator or Musical Director at international festivals, Sawhney works for musical education, having acted as patron of the British Government’s Access-to-music programme, the East London Film festival and, currently, Artist as well as acting as a judge for The Ivor Novello Awards, BAFTA, and the PRS foundation. He is a recipient of 7 honorary doctorates from British universities, is a fellow of LIPA and the Southbank University, an Associate of Sadler’s Wells, sits on the board for London’s Somerset House and in 2007 turned down an OBE for ethical reasons.

Since 2014, the publishing interest of Nitin Sawhney’s catalog has been represented by Reservoir Media Management.

荣誉记录：1998

EMMA Award for Displacing The Priest

2000

Asian Pop Award for Best Mainstream Fusion Act for Beyond Skin

Technics Mercury Music Prize Nomination for album of the year for Beyond Skin

South Bank Award for Popular Music for Beyond Skin

2001

BBC Asia Award for Music for Prophesy

MOBO Award for Prophesy

Boundary Crossing Award, BBC Radio 3 Music Awards for Prophesy

2002

Media Personality of the Year nomination, RIMA Awards

EMMA Award for Prophesy

Muso Award for Prophesy

2003

Commission for Racial Equality Award

2004

Ivor Novello Award Nomination for Best Film score for TV

2005

Boundary Crossing Award, BBC Radio 3 Music Awards for Philtre

2006

Honorary Graduate Degree from South Bank University, London

Laurence Olivier Award in Contemporary Dance (Zero Degrees – scored for Akram Khan)

2007

Honorary degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Kent

2008

Companionship From the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in recognition of his contribution to the world of art and entertainment.

UK Asian Music Awards – "Commitment to Scene"[21]

2009

UK Asian Music Awards – "Best Alternative Act"[22]

Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sussex

Honorary Doctorate from the University of Roehampton

Honorary Doctorate from the University of Staffordshire

"Best Music (Melhor Trilha Sonora)" Jury Award Nomination for Jean Charles (2009)

2011

"Best Specialist Factual" BAFTA Nomination for Human Planet

"Best Original Video Game Score" Ivor Novello Award Nomination for Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Ninja Theory)

2012

"Outstanding Dance Production" Dora Mavor Moore Award Nomination for Confluence (co-directed)

Honorary Doctorate from Goldsmith's College

2015

Winner of Royal Television Society's Composer award for BBC's Wonders Of The Monsoon

独奏：Sawhney has released 10 studio albums. He has received 17 major national awards for his album work.

In 1999 Sawhney released his fourth breakthrough Gold selling album, Beyond Skin, on London’s Outcaste Records, which took a prestigious Technics Mercury Music Prize nomination and won Sawhney the coveted South Bank Show Award. After a subsequent signing to Richard Branson’s V2 Records, Sawhney released the millennial epic and Silver certified Prophesy in 2001, winning a MOBO Award as well as a BBC Radio 3 Music Award. Sawhney’s seventh album, Philtre, was released in May 2005, taking yet another BBC Radio 3 Award and in 2008, his eighth album, London Undersound, released on Cooking Vinyl, featured artwork by Antony Gormley and performances from Paul McCartney, Anoushka Shankar, Imogen Heap and Natty, amongst many others.

Sawhney’s 2011 studio work, Last Days of Meaning, previewed at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2011, centres on a stunning performance from legendary actor, John Hurt, and follows the epic, metaphorical, Dickensian journey of a lonely and intransigent man. His 2013 box-set release ‘ONE ZERO’ was recorded live-to-vinyl as a celebration of ten albums releases. Nitin’s tenth studio album, Dystopian Dream, was released in November 2015.

He produced Anoushka Shankar’s Grammy nominated album “Traces of You” featuring Norah Jones, recently produced up and coming artist Nicki Wells’ debut album and has recently produced the tenth album of internationally renowned concert pianist Helene Grimaud called “Water”.

演出：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 composition for Khan’s Vertical Road received a best new work Award in Melbourne. Sawhney recently worked again with Belgian Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui on a production based on the life of Manga creator, Tezuka and has recently worked with Akram Khan for iTMOi (in the mind of Igor) as part of the centenary Rites of Spring celebrations at Sadler’s Wells.