Andrew T. Mackay
- Composer
- Music Department
- Producer
Andrew is an Olivier Nominated & award winning classically trained composer, producer & arranger. He is also the co-founder alongside Garry Hughes of the popular electronica/world music act Bombay Dub Orchestra.
In 2019 he scored the award-winning stage play adaption of 'Life of Pi' for The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, UK - Directed by Max Webster. The play adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti opened on Broadway in March 2023 after a successful run in London's West-End at the Wyndham Theatre. The filmed version by NT Live released in cinemas in March 2023. He also scored 'Henry V' starring Kit Harington at the Donmar also directed by Max Webster. The film version by National Theatre Live released in April 2022.
His music often fuses orchestral with folk and traditional elements of music from the film's region. His most recent films are multiple National Award-winning 'Hamid' by Aijaz Khan, the Marathi feature 'Raakshas' by Dnyanesh Zoting, 'The Music Teacher' by Sarthak Das Gupta as well as 'Long Live Brij Mohan' by Nikhil Bhat. Andrew also scored Sturla Gunnarsson's feature doc 'Monsoon' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2014 and won the Peoples Choice Award for the best Canadian Film of 2014. In 2015 he scored Katherine Kingland's feature documentary 'In Rajasthan' which has gone on to win awards around the festival circuit.
His debut feature score for the film 'Little Box Of Sweets' by writer/director Meneka Das won the Grand Jury Award for Best Music at The South Asian International Film Festival of New York in 2008. He has also produced several films including the award winning short 'La Lune Folle' distributed by Shorts TV and streaming on Prime in the UK & US and 2022's 'We've Only Just Begun'' also by Meneka Das and as a producer is developing a slate of feature projects.
His company Bohemia Junction Ltd exclusively represents Abbey Road Studios for India, the Grand Philharmonic Orchestra (London) as well as the FAME'S Skopje Studio Orchestra and has recorded the scores for dozen's of Indian films over the last nine years from all regions of India including scores by the likes of AR Rahman and Santhosh Narayanan among many others.
He is the Director of India's first ever Composers Lab which started in 2013 as part Mumbai Film Festival in association with Abbey Road, PRS for Music UK and supported by BMI. He also co-curates Song Writing Camps in India and the UK working alongside the likes of BMI and APRA.
In 2019 he scored the award-winning stage play adaption of 'Life of Pi' for The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, UK - Directed by Max Webster. The play adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti opened on Broadway in March 2023 after a successful run in London's West-End at the Wyndham Theatre. The filmed version by NT Live released in cinemas in March 2023. He also scored 'Henry V' starring Kit Harington at the Donmar also directed by Max Webster. The film version by National Theatre Live released in April 2022.
His music often fuses orchestral with folk and traditional elements of music from the film's region. His most recent films are multiple National Award-winning 'Hamid' by Aijaz Khan, the Marathi feature 'Raakshas' by Dnyanesh Zoting, 'The Music Teacher' by Sarthak Das Gupta as well as 'Long Live Brij Mohan' by Nikhil Bhat. Andrew also scored Sturla Gunnarsson's feature doc 'Monsoon' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2014 and won the Peoples Choice Award for the best Canadian Film of 2014. In 2015 he scored Katherine Kingland's feature documentary 'In Rajasthan' which has gone on to win awards around the festival circuit.
His debut feature score for the film 'Little Box Of Sweets' by writer/director Meneka Das won the Grand Jury Award for Best Music at The South Asian International Film Festival of New York in 2008. He has also produced several films including the award winning short 'La Lune Folle' distributed by Shorts TV and streaming on Prime in the UK & US and 2022's 'We've Only Just Begun'' also by Meneka Das and as a producer is developing a slate of feature projects.
His company Bohemia Junction Ltd exclusively represents Abbey Road Studios for India, the Grand Philharmonic Orchestra (London) as well as the FAME'S Skopje Studio Orchestra and has recorded the scores for dozen's of Indian films over the last nine years from all regions of India including scores by the likes of AR Rahman and Santhosh Narayanan among many others.
He is the Director of India's first ever Composers Lab which started in 2013 as part Mumbai Film Festival in association with Abbey Road, PRS for Music UK and supported by BMI. He also co-curates Song Writing Camps in India and the UK working alongside the likes of BMI and APRA.
