Sandy Nuttgens
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Alexander "Sandy" Nuttgens (b.1964) is a British composer and a member of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
He is principally known for scoring television programmes mainly in the realm of children's TV and documentaries. He has scored numerous BAFTA and Royal Television Society
winners and nominees including My Parents Are Aliens
for Granada
, Timelines for October Films and Shakespeare Shorts for the BBC
.. In 2008 he scored his first feature film 'The Blue Tower'which won Best UK Film at the London Raindance Film Festival.
In 2007 Nuttgens won an RTS Yorkshire Region Award for Best Music for his score for Terry Jones' Barbarians
for Oxford Films and the BBC.. He was nominated for RTS Best Music for 'The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair' for Channel4 in 2008, and in 2010 he won an RTS Award for Best Music for 'The Queen in 3D' for Renegade Films.
Nuttgens has a long-term relationship as principal composer for Yorkshire's national touring young peoples theatre company, Pilot Theatre
. Their break-through production of Lord Of The Flies
was nominated for a TMA Award in 1999 and won a Manchester Evening News Award for best production in 2001. Recent productions have included the stage premiere of Anne Cassidy's Looking For JJ and providing the opening show for the 2007 International Indian Film Academy film awards.. In 2010 he scored Pilot's much acclaimed touring version of Romeo and Juliet, and co-wrote the title song 'Kiss By The Book' with Molly McQueen, daughter of Midge Ure
.
Nuttgens was a founder member of UK dance act Skipraiders, which was signed to Paul Oakenfold
and his Perfecto Records
label. He also has a long-term writing collaboration with UK Garage
and reggae
singer Sweetie Irie
.
In 2004 Nuttgens led the campaign to establish the first Parent Promoted secondary school in the UK culminating in the opening of The Elmgreen School
in 2007. He was the schools first Chair of Governors and Chair of the Parent Promoters Foundation.
Nuttgens is the son of academic and architect Patrick Nuttgens
and the brother of Cinematographer Giles Nuttgens
. He also has three children.
He is principally known for scoring television programmes mainly in the realm of children's TV and documentaries. He has scored numerous BAFTA and Royal Television Society
Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...
winners and nominees including My Parents Are Aliens
My Parents are Aliens
My Parents are Aliens is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television and later Granada Productions for CITV about an eccentric family, which was produced as seven annual series, first broadcast in 1999 and ending in 2006...
for Granada
Granada Television
Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
, Timelines for October Films and Shakespeare Shorts for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
.. In 2008 he scored his first feature film 'The Blue Tower'which won Best UK Film at the London Raindance Film Festival.
In 2007 Nuttgens won an RTS Yorkshire Region Award for Best Music for his score for Terry Jones' Barbarians
Terry Jones' Barbarians
Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was written and presented by Terry Jones, and it challenges the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the barbarian....
for Oxford Films and the BBC.. He was nominated for RTS Best Music for 'The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair' for Channel4 in 2008, and in 2010 he won an RTS Award for Best Music for 'The Queen in 3D' for Renegade Films.
Nuttgens has a long-term relationship as principal composer for Yorkshire's national touring young peoples theatre company, Pilot Theatre
Pilot Theatre
Pilot Theatre is an Arts Council England funded Theatre Company based in York, England. It was founded in 1981 by students from Bretton Hall College in Wakefield. The company was based in Wakefield and Castleford before moving to York in 2001....
. Their break-through production of Lord Of The Flies
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results...
was nominated for a TMA Award in 1999 and won a Manchester Evening News Award for best production in 2001. Recent productions have included the stage premiere of Anne Cassidy's Looking For JJ and providing the opening show for the 2007 International Indian Film Academy film awards.. In 2010 he scored Pilot's much acclaimed touring version of Romeo and Juliet, and co-wrote the title song 'Kiss By The Book' with Molly McQueen, daughter of Midge Ure
Midge Ure
James "Midge" Ure, OBE is a Scottish guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter...
.
Nuttgens was a founder member of UK dance act Skipraiders, which was signed to Paul Oakenfold
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...
and his Perfecto Records
Perfecto Records
Perfecto Records is a United Kingdom based Trance record label founded by Paul Oakenfold in 1989.-History:Perfecto was founded by electronic music record producer and DJ Paul Oakenfold in 1989...
label. He also has a long-term writing collaboration with UK Garage
UK garage
UK garage is a genre of electronic dance music originating from the United Kingdom in the early-1990s. UK garage is a descendant of house music which originated in Chicago and New York, United States. UK garage usually features a distinctive syncopated 4/4 percussive rhythm with 'shuffling'...
and reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
singer Sweetie Irie
Sweetie Irie
Derrick Bent , better known as Sweetie Irie, is a British reggae singer and DJ.-Biography:Born in London in 1971, Bent began working on local sound systems as a teenager, bringing him to the attention of Angus Gaye of Aswad, who recruited him to toast on the dancehall mix of their single "On and On"...
.
In 2004 Nuttgens led the campaign to establish the first Parent Promoted secondary school in the UK culminating in the opening of The Elmgreen School
Elmgreen School
The Elmgreen School in West Norwood is the first Parent Promoted secondary school to be created in the UK under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. The school is a specialist Humanities College.-History:...
in 2007. He was the schools first Chair of Governors and Chair of the Parent Promoters Foundation.
Nuttgens is the son of academic and architect Patrick Nuttgens
Patrick Nuttgens
Patrick John Nuttgens CBE was an English architect and academic.Patrick Nuttgens was raised in Piggotts Hill, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. His father, stained-glass artist Joseph Edward Nuttgens, married twice, and Patrick was one of four children from the first marriage. His mother died...
and the brother of Cinematographer Giles Nuttgens
Giles Nuttgens
Giles Nuttgens BSC, is a British cinematographer. He is best known to fans of independent art house fare for his work on Deepa Mehta's "Elements trilogy", consisting of the films Fire , Earth and Water , and to general audiences for his work as cinematographer on the big-budget science fiction...
. He also has three children.
External links
- Independent Movie Database Filmography - imdb.com
- The official Sandy Nuttgens website - nuttgens.com
- /: BBC story on Sandy Nuttgens - bbc.co.uk