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Alexander "Sandy" Nuttgens (born 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
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Overview
The show primarily follows the lives of three o ...
for
Granada, ''Timelines'' for October Films and ''Shakespeare Shorts'' for the
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. In 2008 he scored his first feature film 'The Blue Tower'which won Best UK Film at the London Raindance Film Festival.
In children's television he scored the music for series 2 of
Postman Pat
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SDS for Classic Media, and Big & Small, Get Well Soon and Dinopaws for
Kindle Entertainment. Both Postman Pat and Dinopaws were nominated in the 2014
BAFTA Children's Awards.
In 2007 Nuttgens won an ''RTS Yorkshire Region Award'' for Best Music for his score for ''
Terry Jones' Barbarians
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Professor Barry Cunlif ...
'' 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 is an Arts Council England funded Theatre Company based in York, England. It was founded in by students from Bretton Hall College in Wakefield. The company was based in Wakefield and Castleford before moving to York in 2001.
Histo ...
. Their break-through production of
Lord of the Flies
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was nominated for a
TMA Award
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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
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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
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and his
Perfecto Records
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label.
He also has a long-term writing collaboration with
UK Garage
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and
reggae
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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 school's first Chair of Governors and Chair of the Parent Promoters Foundation.
Nuttgens is the son of academic and architect
Patrick Nuttgens
Patrick John Nuttgens CBE (2 March 1930 – 15 March 2004) was an influential English architect and academic.
Early life
Nuttgens was born in Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire, the fourth of five children to Kathleen Mary (''née'' Clarke) an Iri ...
and the grandson of stained glass artist
Joseph Edward Nuttgens
Joseph Edward (Eddie) Nuttgens (1892 – 1982), in Germany spelt Nüttgens, was a stained glass designer in England who worked mainly on church windows.
Early life
Nuttgens was born in Aachen, the eldest child of six born to a German tailor ...
. He is married to Actress and Voice-Over artist Claire Lacey and has three children.
References
External links
*
The official Sandy Nuttgens website- nuttgens.com
/: BBC story on Sandy Nuttgens- bbc.co.uk
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1964 births
Living people
British composers