Event overview
Due to unforeseen personal matters, Nitin Sawhney has had to postpone his talk on Tuesday. We are hoping to reschedule for the autumn term.
Goldsmiths Honorary Doctorate recipient, Nitin Sawhney discusses his cross platform work as a composer, producer & creative practitioner
Nitin is one of the busiest, most versatile and sought after composers and producers around. As the holder of five honorary doctorates and three fellowships, he is now signed to Universal Publishing, worked with a host of celebrated artists including Paul McCartney and Sting and has made nine studio albums, for which he has been nominated for a Mercury Music prize, won a MOBO, two BBC Radio 3 awards and a Southbank Show award, amongst 15 others.
He has scored over 50 films for cinema and television, with an Ivor Novello nomination for best score, leading to his much acclaimed orchestral music to the BAFTA-nominated BBC series, The Human Planet, Mira Nair’s film The Namesake, three film scores for live performance by the London Symphony Orchestra, two acclaimed videogame scores and composition for Olivier winning theatrical and dance productions with Complicite and Akram Khan. Sawhney recently scored for Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s book Midnight’s Children, Hitchcock’s early silent movie The Lodger, Khyentse Norbu’s Vara: A Blessing and Japan in a Day for Ridley and Tony Scott.
Sawhney has recently recorded OneZero to be released in June of this year. This project is a live cut to vinyl and is a retrospective session consisting of tracks taken from Sawhney’s nine album back catalogue, and a preview of tracks from his forthcoming album, ‘Dystopian Dream’ to be released at the back end of 2013. Sawhney is also producing Anoushka Shankar’s latest album (featuring Norah Jones) and hosts his own radio series for BBC Radio 2 – Nitin Sawhney Spins the Globe.
All welcome, not just for graduates!
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 30 Apr 2013 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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