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.[1]

He is most well known for scoring television programmes mainly in the realm of children's TV and documentaries. He has scored many 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.[2]

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.[3]

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 won a Theatre Managers Association (TMA) award in 1998. Recent productions have included the stage premier of Anne Cassidy's Looking For JJ and providing the opening show for the 2007 International Indian Film Academy film awards.[4]

Nuttgens was a founder member of UK dance act Skipraiders, which was signed to Paul Oakenfold and his Perfecto Records label.[5][6] He also has a long-term writing collaboration with UK Garage and reggae singer Sweetie Irie.[7]

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.[8]

Nuttgens is the son of academic and architect Patrick Nuttgens and the brother of Cinematographer Giles Nuttgens.[9]

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  1. ^ Sandy Nuttgens (2007). Sandy Nuttgens Composer. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  2. ^ Internet Movie database (2007). Sandy Nuttgens Filmography. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  3. ^ British Academy of Composers and Songwriters (2007). Alexander Nuttgens Biography. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  4. ^ Pilot Theatre (2008). Pilot Theatre website home page. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  5. ^ Skipraiders (2007). Skipraiders index. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  6. ^ British Academy of Composers and Songwriters (2007). Alexander Nuttgens Biography. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  7. ^ Pilot Theatre (2007). Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  8. ^ The Guardian (2007). The beginning of a story. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  9. ^ Sandy Nuttgens (2007). Sandy Nuttgens Composer. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.

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