Nitin Sawhney to perform with Hallé Orchestra in special one-off show

Award-winning composer and performer, Nitin Sawhney, is set for a special one-off performance with the Hallé Orchestra this December.

Sawhney has worked and played with the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Anoushka Shankar, Akram Khan, Pink Floyd and Jools Holland. He has released over 20 albums and written around 70 film and TV scores, including Netflix’s Mowgli and the BBC’s award-winning Human Planet series.

On Thu 5 Dec, he and his band will collaborate with the Hallé as part of its ‘Hallé Presents…’ series at The Bridgewater Hall. The concert will include music from his genre-defying albums Prophesy, Beyond Skin, Immigrants and his latest release, Identity which are all inspired by music from around the globe as he responds to multiculturalism, politics and spirituality.

Sawhney will also perform a piece he has written especially for the concert which documents his experience of having a heart attack in March, leading to the original concert date in May being rescheduled. Thankfully, following surgery and a period of rest, he has now fully recovered.

An exciting part of Sawhney’s new composition will feature The Bridgewater Hall’s magnificent pipe organ which Sawhney intends to play after having visited the venue to view the auditorium.

Nitin Sawhney said of the piece he has composed: “I’m very excited to be playing with the Hallé, one of my favourite orchestras, and I am going to be writing a piece specifically for them. With this work I’m really trying to capture the feelings and internal psychology of having a heart attack.

“I am musically focussing on what happened around me at the time in relation to how I was medically treated, but also the aftermath of it in relation to my mental and emotional state.”

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