Amin Bhatia

Amin Bhatia (born 10 July 1961 London, England) is a recording artist, film and television music score composer and producer. In 1981 his compositions won the Roland Corporation International Synthesizer competition for two consecutive years. The judges included Oscar Peterson, synth veterans Robert Moog and Ralph Dyck, and Japanese artist Isao Tomita. The exposure led to projects with David Foster, Steve Porcaro and a solo album on Capitol Records Cinema label called "The Interstellar Suite" which launched his career in music for film and television.

Bhatia is known for lush orchestral work with contemporary influences. His early compositions were created strictly with analog keyboards and tape, combining and layering hundreds of electronic parts to achieve a warm orchestral sound that was not sampled from an orchestra. In later years, Amin’s strengths in both music and midi synthesizer programming led him to projects like "John Woo's Once a Thief" and “Iron Eagle II”. Over the years Bhatia has moved into actual orchestral work with his film and television scores. The IMAX film “Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees” features members of the Toronto Symphony and Opera Orchestras with hit songs recorded in Africa with Johnny Clegg. The GFT epic war feature “Going Back” was recorded by the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the animated adventure “Rescue Heroes: The Movie” (Nelvana) features players from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Amin Bhatia has been awarded several Gemini awards for his music score work in television, and an Emmy nomination for the Disney animated series "Get Ed". Bhatia's projects include the complete five seasons of Flashpoint (TV series)(CBS/CTV). He has also worked as a consultant or programmer to many synthesizer companies including Roland Corporation, Q Sound, Arturia and Spectrasonics.

Bhatia's recorded works include "The Interstellar Suite" and "Virtuality". "The Interstellar Suite" was originally released in 1987 by the Capitol Cinema label and was independently re-released in 2003 on CD. The 25th Anniversary Collectors Edition is a 5.1 Surround Sound DVD release (December 2012). "Virtuality" is a double concept album exploring the world within computers. Guest artists include veterans Steve Porcaro and Patrick Moraz as well as detailed liner notes written by synthesizer historian Mark Vail. The album is dedicated to Bob Moog and is endorsed by his family. A portion of sales from every CD go to the Bob Moog Foundation. Of note in this recording is “Bolero Electronica”, a performance of Ravel’s Bolero with 75 years of synthesizers performed in chronological order. Everything from the Theremin (guest performance by Kevin Kissinger) and Ondes Martenot (guest performance by Thomas Bloch) to modern day virtual plug-ins are featured in this work. Album artwork includes a centrefold matrix of the Timeline of Technology used in the recording of this epic piece.