Scores
In recent years Sawhney has been commissioned to write the scores for a number of different projects. He has established himself as an in-demand composer for film and television. His music for Channel 4’s Second Generation saw him nominated for the Ivor Novello Award for Film and TV Composition. He has also scored ads for the likes of Nike and Sephora. In 2006, Sawhney composed a new symphony to accompany Franz Osten's 1929 silent film, A Throw of Dice, which premiered with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, London. More recent works include scores for Oscar-nominated director Mira Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's, The Namesake, as well as Natural Fantasia and Human Planet for the BBC.
This work for film and television has led to recognition within the classical world as well. In 2001, Sawhney composed "Neural Circuits" for the Britten Sinfonia, a collaboration that has continued in the years since. In 2002, he worked with Akram Khan and Anish Kapoor, scoring the music to Khan’s choreographed work Kaash, which toured worldwide between 2002–2003. In 2004, Sawhney was commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to compose a new piece for their Harmony Project. Hir previous scores also include the new adaptation of Mahabharata by the Olivier Award- winning writer Stephen Clarke, Simon McBurney's A Disappearing Number for Complicite, and first-time theatrical director Jonathan Holmes' Fallujah.
Most recently, Sawhney has had the pleasure of once again working with the London Symphony Orchestra for the Network/BFI re-master of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger, due to be performed live at The Barbican Centre on Saturday, 21st July 2012. Sawhney is also scoring Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s book Midnight's Children, due to be released 26th October 2012 (US).
Sawhney produced the music for the Ninja Theory video games Heavenly Sword and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (both starring Andy Serkis).
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