SANDEEP BHAGWATI Indian-German-Canadian composer of mostly stage, chamber and multimedia works that are routinely being performed worldwide; he is also active as a conductor, theatre director, university researcher, curator, performer, visual artist and writer. He was born 1963 in Mumbai/India, spent formative years in Germany, Austria, France and UK. Since 2006, he has been living in and around Montréal, Canada.

Bhagwati studied Composition with Edison Denisov and Boguslaw Schäffer and Conducting with Kurt Prestel at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 1984-87 and Composition with Wilhelm Killmayer at the Musikhochschule Munich from 1987-90, where he graduated with distinction (Künstlerisches Diplom mit Meisterklasse). 1995-96 Cursus annuel de Composition et Informatique Musicale, IRCAM, Paris, where he encountered Brian Ferneyhough and Tristan Murail.

Since 2006, he is Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art at Concordia University Montréal where he directs matralab, a research node for interdisciplinary, intercultural, intermedia art. Before, from 2000 onwards, he taught as Professor für Komposition und Multimedia at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe. He also taught as a visiting professor of electronic music at the Institut für Elektronische Musik of the Universität Graz in 1998. From 2008 to 2011, he also was the director of Hexagram Concordia, a centre for research-creation in media arts with a faculty of 45 artist-researchers and extensive state-of-the-art facilities.

As a principal researcher he has, since 2006, obtained several large and smaller research-creation grants to the count of almost $ 2 million, and as a co-applicant he has been involved in successful grant applications totalling over $ 6 million. These grants were obtained primarily from Canadian and Quebec academic funds, such as Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada Research Chair Programme, Canada Fund for Innovation and Fonds de Recherche de Quebec. His current research-creation centers on comprovisation, inter-traditional aesthetics, the aesthetics of interdisciplinarity, gestural theatre, sonic theatre and interactive visual and non-visual scores.