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He has received over 20 major national and international awards for his work and is a member of the academy of motion picture sciences (Oscars), BAFTA and the US recording academy (Grammys). Sawhney is also the new Chair of the PRS Foundation, the UK\u2019s funding body for new music and talent development.<\/p>\n<p>His new album called \u2018Immigrants\u2019 for Sony Masterworks is due for release in March 2021. Sawhney\u2019s keen interest in science and maths has led to appearances with Brian Cox for the Infinite Monkey Cage, with Chris Packham for a natural history documentary, various TEDx talks about music, physics and maths, and appearances at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the Stanford Linear Particle Accelerator (with whom he collaborated) and a VIP visit with actor, the late John Hurt to the Jet Propulsion Laboratories at Pasadena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitin Sawhney, recipient of the Ivor Novello 2017 Lifetime Achievement award, is one the most distinctive and versatile musical voices around today. 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