Sandy Nuttgens

Alexander "Sandy" Nuttgens (b.1964) is a British composer and a member of the "British Academy of Composers and Songwriters". [cite web|url=http://www.nuttgens.com|title=Sandy Nuttgens Composer|accessdate=2008-04-22 |author=Sandy Nuttgens |date=2007]

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. [cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1709611/|title=Sandy Nuttgens Filmography|accessdate=2008-04-22 |author=Internet Movie database |date=2007]

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. [cite web|url=http://www.britishacademy.com/member-profile/view-110.html|title=Alexander Nuttgens Biography|accessdate=2008-04-22 |author=British Academy of Composers and Songwriters |date=2007]

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 Theatre Managers Association (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. [cite web|url=http://www.pilot-theatre.com/redesign/?intro=true|title=Pilot Theatre website home page|accessdate=2008-04-22 |author=Pilot Theatre|date=2008]

Nuttgens was a founder member of UK dance act Skipraiders, which was signed to Paul Oakenfold and his Perfecto Records label. [cite web|url=http://www.skipraiders.com/index.swf|title=Skipraiders index|accessdate=2008-04-22 |author=Skipraiders |date=2007] [cite web|url=http://www.britishacademy.com/member-profile/view-110.html|title=Alexander Nuttgens Biography|accessdate=2008-04-22 |author=British Academy of Composers and Songwriters |date=2007] He also has a long-term writing collaboration with UK Garage and reggae singer Sweetie Irie. [cite web|url=http://www.pilot-theatre.com/redesign/?idno=1124|title= Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads|accessdate=2008-04-22 |author=Pilot Theatre |date=2007]

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. [cite web|url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2181092,00.html|title=The beginning of a story|accessdate=2008-04-22 |author=The Guardian |date=2007]

Nuttgens is the son of academic and architect Patrick Nuttgens and the brother of Cinematographer Giles Nuttgens. [cite web|url=http://www.nuttgens.com|title=Sandy Nuttgens Composer|accessdate=2008-04-22 |author=Sandy Nuttgens |date=2007]

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External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1709611/ Independent Movie Database Filmography] - imdb.com
* [http://www.nuttgens.com/ The official Sandy Nuttgens website] - nuttgens.com
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2007/10/04/looking_for_jj_theatre_review_feature.shtml /: BBC story on Sandy Nuttgens] - bbc.co.uk