Emmy nominated composer Amin Bhatia has a dual career both as synth programmer and orchestral film composer. His prizes at the Roland International Synthesizer competitions won him international fame in his youth, leading to projects with David Foster and Steve Porcaro and launched him into a career in film and television score composition.
His "Interstellar Suite" (Capitol/Cinema) became a landmark album for analog synthesizers when Amin created an orchestral epic without using any samplers. The sequel "Virtuality" is the first album to be endorsed by the Bob Moog Foundation. Of note is "Bolero Electronica", Ravel's masterpiece performed on 75 years of synthesizers in chronological order.
Amin now works with live players in his writing, but his early studio days recording parts one at a time have given him an unusual insight into the subtleties of arranging when working with full size orchestras in Toronto, Munich or Bratislava. Credits include the features "John Woo's Once a Thief", "Iron Eagle II", "Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees" (IMAX), and the TV series "Get Ed" (Disney) for which he and co-writer Ari Posner received an Emmy Nomination.
Over the last several years Bhatia and Posner, scored the groundbreaking CTV/CBS/Ion crime drama "Flashpoint ". The score and theme garnered them many Gemini nominations, SOCAN Awards, and their first Canadian Screen Award for Best Music. Amin Bhatia's most recent projects include the new IMAX feature "Wonders of the Arctic", the surround sound release of the 25th Anniversary of The Interstellar Suite and the WWII espionage TV series X Company (Temple Street/CBC).