15 Mar 2025

WOMAD: Nitin Sawhney

From Saturday Morning, 10:38 am on 15 March 2025
Photographed in Brixton, London 7th June 2017

Photographed in Brixton, London 7th June 2017 Photo: Suki Dhanda

British musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney CBE is a formidable talent across many genres, from his own brand of British electronic and fusion music, to composing for orchestras and has collaborated with everyone from Paul McCartney, to Annie Lennox to Pink Floyd.

He's a recipient of an Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award, has recorded more than 20 solo albums, composed more than 70 film and TV scores and performed at venues including the Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House. He has 8 honorary doctorates and is a Booker prize judge.  As well as that, he had an award winning comedy career.