Career
He is principally known for scoring television programmes mainly in the realm of children"s television and documentaries. He has scored numerous British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Royal Television Society winners and nominees including My Parents Are Aliens for Granada, Timelines for October Films and Shakespeare Shorts for the British Broadcasting Corporation. In children"s television he scored the music for series 2 of Postman Pat Study Direct Stream for Classic Media, and Big & Small, Get Well Soon and Dinopaws for Kindle Entertainment. Both Postman Pat and Dinopaws were nominated in the 2014 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Children"s Awards.
Nuttgens has a long-term relationship as principal composer for Yorkshire"s national touring young peoples theatre company, Pilot Theatre.
Recent productions have included the stage premiere of Anne Cassidy"s Looking Foreign JJ and providing the opening show for the 2007 International Indian Film Academy film awards. In 2010 he scored Pilot"s much acclaimed touring version of Romeo and Juliet, and co-wrote the title song "Kiss By The Book" with Molly McQueen, daughter of Midge Ure.
He also has a long-term writing collaboration with United Kingdom Garage and reggae singer Sweetie Irie. In 2004 Nuttgens led the campaign to establish the first Parent Promoted secondary school in the United Kingdom culminating in the opening of The Elmgreen School in 2007.
He was the school"s first Chair of Governors and Chair of the Parent Promoters Foundation.
Nuttgens is the son of academic and architect Patrick Nuttgens.
