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Welcome to the website of Naresh Sohal, a unique voice in contemporary classical music.
Born in Punjab in 1939, and a long-time resident of the UK, Sohal’s work spans two cultures. As a British composer, he writes fluently in the Western idiom: as an Asian composer, he draws heavily on the insights of Indian philosophy.
Sohal combines musical passion with technical brilliance to further his main purpose, which is always the elevation of the human spirit. His music has been performed worldwide. In 1987 he was awarded a Padma Shri by the Indian government for his services to Western music. |
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'He has such a command of orchestration, it's ridiculous. There's no-one else I could name on the planet like him.'
- Graham de Wilde, music producer and composer, September 2007
'Sohal's music is dominated by a wonderful sense of colour - for that reason he loves above all to write for the orchestra with its endless range of timbres and textures... ' - Music Current, September 1989.
'Like Berlioz or Tippett, his musical style has a maverick independence and a peculiar set of criteria all its own'. - Meirion Bowen, the Guardian, 21.8.82.
'His is a particularly distinctive voice.' - Carol Main, Scotland on Sunday, 18.9.92.
