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

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and

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winners and nominees including

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for

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, ''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

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SDS, Odo, Floogals, Mixmups, Big & Small, Get Well Soon and Dinopaws. Both Postman Pat and Dinopaws were nominated in the 2014

Children's Awards. Nuttgens was awarded two Silver Telly Awards for his work on Odo. In 2023, Sandy scored the music for BooSnoo! on Sky Kids. 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. 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. Between 1995-2012 Nuttgens had a long-term relationship as principal composer for Yorkshire's national touring young peoples theatre company,

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. Their break-through production of

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was nominated for a 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

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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

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. Nuttgens was a founder member of UK dance act Skipraiders, which was signed to

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and his

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label. He also has a long-term writing collaboration with

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and

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singer

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. 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

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and the grandson of stained glass artist Joseph Edward Nuttgens. He is married to Actress and Voice-Over artist Claire Lacey and has three children.

References

External links

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The official Sandy Nuttgens website
- nuttgens.com
/: BBC story on Sandy Nuttgens
- bbc.co.uk {{DEFAULTSORT:Nuttgens, Sandy 1964 births Living people British composers