Tandis Jenhudson

Tandis Jenhudson (born 1979) is a Emmy and BAFTA-nominated British composer, musician and medical doctor, best known for his work on film and television soundtracks. He has also received two Royal Television Society award nominations and is the first composer honoured as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit through which he was mentored by Ennio Morricone.

Early life and education Tandis was born in Clapham, London in 1979 and attended St George's Hanover Square Primary School, and the London Nautical School and Christ's College, Finchley secondary schools.

In a 2014 interview, Directed by John Akomfrah and executive-produced by Robert Redford The March is about the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom – largely remembered for Martin Luther King's famous and iconic "I Have a Dream" speech.

In March 2015, Tandis was named laureate and winner in the media composer category at the first International MediaMusic competition in Moscow, for which film composer Ennio Morricone served as honorary chairman. In May he was revealed as one of the judges for the 60th Anniversary Ivor Novello Awards, alongside Gary Barlow and Guy Chambers. In the same year he scored the soundtrack to director Christopher Riley's National Geographic Channel film Hubble's Cosmic Journey.

In 2016, he composed the soundtrack for 'The Traffickers' an eight-part documentary TV series produced by Simon Chinn (winner of two Academy Awards for Searching for Sugar Man and Man On Wire) and Jonathan Chinn.

In 2018, he scored Civilisations, a 9-part art history television series produced by the BBC in association with PBS as a follow-up to the original 1969 landmark series Civilisation by Kenneth Clark. It was presented and narrated by Simon Schama, Mary Beard and David Olusoga. Jenhudson's soundtrack received two nominations at the RTS awards in 2018.

In 2015, he scored Vertigo Sea, a 3-screen triptych that explores man's relationship with the sea and its role in the history of slavery, migration, and conflict. It premiered at the 2015 Venice Biennale and has since exhibited at numerous galleries including Arnolfini, the Turner Contemporary and as recently as 2018 at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. It was nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts award in the Visual Arts category.

In 2017, he collaborated with David Julyan to score Purple, a six-screen film about climate change, human communities and the wilderness. It exhibited for 14 weeks at the Barbican in London, receiving a 4-star review from The Telegraph commenting that it offered "ravishing reminders of what we all stand to lose".

Awards and honours In 2014, he was selected as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and as a result was mentored by his lifelong idol Ennio Morricone.

In 2018, he was nominated for two Royal Television Society awards for Civilisations in the categories of Original Score and Original Title Music. 2013 The March Feature Documentary BBC Two PBS John Akomfrah Narrated by Denzel Washington, exec-produced by Robert Redford Nominated:

BAFTA (best factual) 2015 Hubble's Cosmic Journey Feature Documentary National Geographic Christopher Riley Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson Nominated

Emmy Award 2015 Vertigo Sea Video Installation John Akomfrah Nominated

South Bank Sky Arts Award 2016 The Traffickers 8-part TV series Fusion TV Various Lightbox Productions (exec producer Simon Chinn) Winner:

The AIBs Asian Media Awards 2017 Stalkers Feature Documentary BBC One Kat English Produced by Wild Pictures 2017 Purple Video Installation John Akomfrah Premiered at Barbican Curve, London 2018 Food Exposed 8-part TV series Fusion TV Various Produced by Lightbox (executive producer Simon Chinn) 2018 Civilisations 8-part TV series BBC Two PBS Various Produced by NutopiaPresented by Simon Schama Mary Beard and David OlusogaNominated

RTS Award (Best Original Score and Best Title Music) 2019 Hatton Garden: Inside Job Feature Documentary ITV Tim Conrad ITV (produced by Optomen) - presented by Ross Kemp 2019 Cajun Navy Feature Documentary Discovery Channel James Newton Produced by Lightbox (exec producer Simon Chinn) 2019 The Cameron Years 2-part TV series BBC One Ian Leese BBC1 (exec producer Denys Blakeway) 2020 Tigers: Hunting the Traffickers Feature Documentary BBC Two Laura Warner BBC2 Natural World (produced by Grain Media)Nominated - Grierson Award (Best Natural History Documentary) 2021 Joanna Lumley and the Human Swan Feature Documentary ITV Ian Leese ITV 2022 Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime 2-part TV series Channel 4 Kira Phillips Nominated:

BAFTA (best factual series) RTS (best doc series / best director) Grierson (best doc series) Broadcast Awards (best doc series) 2022 Patagonia: Life at the Edge of the World 6-part TV series CNN SKY Various Plimsoll Productions (exec producer Martha Holmes) Nominated:

EMMY (outstanding narrator Pedro Pascal) 2022 The Disappearance of April Jones 3-part TV series Channel 4 John Incledon Nominated:

BAFTA Cymru (best doc series) 2022 Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and Me Feature Documentary Apple TV+ BBC Two Clare Sturges Nominated:

BAFTA Cymru (best director) 2023 Inside Iran: The Fight for Freedom Feature Documentary ITV Gesbeen Mohammad Hard Cash Productions 2023 David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived Feature Documentary HBO SKY Dan Hartley Produced by Lightbox (exec producer Simon Chinn) 2023 Putin and Ukraine's Stolen Children Feature Documentary BBC One Robin Barnwell Top Hat Productions