Welcome to the website of Naresh Sohal, a unique voice in contemporary music in the Western tradition. His works deal with some of the most profound themes of the human condition, but are at the same time accessible to a wide audience. He combines musical passion with technical brilliance to further his main purpose - which is always the elevation of the human spirit.
Sohal is the first Non-resident Indian to receive the award of Padma Shree from the Indian government, and the first composer to use Punjabi and Bengali texts in a western classical context. His music has been performed worldwide. |
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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... His musical style is unique and independent, indeed maverick.' - 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.
