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	'''Priti Paintal''' (born 1960) is an [[Indian people\|East Indian]] composer, performer, music producer and promoter who lives and works in [[England]].		'''Priti Paintal''' (born 1960) is an [[Indian people\|East Indian]] composer, performer, music producer and promoter who lives and works in [[England]].

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'''Priti Paintal''' (born 1960) is an [[Indian people|East Indian]] composer, performer, music producer and promoter who lives and works in [[England]].

==Life==
Paintal was born in New Delhi, India, the daughter of the distinguished Indian scientist [[Autar Singh Paintal]]. She trained in both Indian and Western music and studied [[sitar]] and [[tabla]] as a child and piano and composition in India. Paintal received a master's degree in ethnomusicology before moving to England to study composition at York University and the Royal Northern College of Music in [[Manchester]] with [[Anthony Gilbert (composer)|Anthony Gilbert]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Women & music: a history|editor=Pendle, Karin|year=1991}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Pandora guide to women composers: Britain and the United States|url=https://archive.org/details/pandoraguidetowo00full|url-access=registration|author=Fuller, Sophie|year=1994}}</ref>

She founded the ensemble ShivaNova in 1988<ref>{{Cite journal|date=January 1994|title=Priti Paintal|journal=Contemporary Music Review|volume=11|issue=1|pages=229–231|doi=10.1080/07494469400641071|issn=0749-4467}}</ref> to unite diverse musical traditions into a global sound. The ensemble collaborates with artists including storytellers, jugglers, dancers and orchestras, and provides workshops in schools and communities. A mainstream dance music spin-off of the group, SugarNova, had its debut single "Over and Over" reach the top 20 of the Music Week Club charts.

Her music brings together traditional, classical and jazz performers in a unique mix of Indian roots and contemporary flair. In addition to her group pieces she wrote the mini-opera "Survival Song" for the Royal Opera House Garden Venture contemporary opera programme,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFZucI550GIC&q=Survival+Song%22+for+the+Royal+Opera+House+Garden+Venture&pg=PA246|title=Women and Music: A History|last=Pendle|first=Karin|date=2001-04-22|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253115034}}</ref> which was shortlisted for the Olivier Awards. It led to the full-length opera "Biko",<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dunnett|first=Roderic|date=1992-06-05|title=Pride of race. ('Biko' composer and librettist Priti Paintal and Richard Fawkes) (Interview)|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/61440624|journal=New Statesman & Society|language=English|volume=v5|issue=n205|pages=32(1)}}</ref> staged in London and Birmingham, the Royal Opera House's first commission from an Asian and a woman composer. Other performers have included the Philharmonia Orchestra in the premiere of "Secret Chants", the title track of ShivaNova’s latest CD, and she has written works for the City of London Sinfonia, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, East of England Orchestra, the Balanescu and Bingham string quartets, the Park Lane Sextet, and numerous singers and instrumentalists. Some of Priti's work is held in the [[British Music Collection]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/composer/priti-paintal |title=Priti Paintal |date=2009-04-04 |work=[[British Music Collection]] |access-date=2018-09-02}}</ref> Archive at Heritage Quay University of Huddersfield.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://heritagequay.org/archives/?keyword=paintal|title=Archives {{!}} Heritage Quay|website=heritagequay.org|access-date=2018-09-02}}</ref>

Priti has written for ''The Guardian'' newspaper, and been featured in ''The Independent'' and ''The Daily Telegraph''. She has appeared on ''Songlines'', ''BBC 3'' and ''Woman's Hour''. She has served on the Arts Council Music panel, the board of South-East Arts, the board of Kent Music.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shivanova.com/priti.html|title=ShivaNova|access-date=3 December 2010}}</ref>

==Works==
Selected works include:
*''Grandharva Music I''
''Polygamy'', ''Urban Mantras'', ''Flying to the Sun'', ''Moonlighting'', ''Seventh Heaven (CDs)''

*''Secret Chants'' (orchestral work and CD)
*''Survival Song'', chamber opera
''Biko'' (full-length opera based on the life of Apartheid leader Stephen Biko)
*''Gulliver in Lilliput'', children's opera
*''Bananas'', multimedia show
*''Global Feast'', multi-artform

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