Biography

Ishaan Chhabra is a Los Angeles-based composer and music producer. A graduate of Berklee College of Music in electronic music production and sound design - his work spans feature films, documentaries, television, and branded commercials.

He composed Budhia Singh: Born to Run (2016), which won the National Award for Best Children’s Film, and Hansal Mehta’s Omertà (2017), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. His work on HBO’s Momentum Generation (2018) earned a Sports Emmy nomination for Best Music Direction, and he co-composed the score for the Oscar-nominated documentary Writing With Fire (2021). He recently composed the score for the "Rice" episode of the Apple TV+ documentary series Omnivore (2024).

In mainstream Hindi cinema, Ishaan scored the box-office hit Srikanth (2024), Imtiaz Ali’s Love Aaj Kal (2020), and Aanand L. Rai’s Raksha Bandhan (2022). His television credits include the acclaimed series Scam 2003 (Sony) and Dhootha (Amazon Prime Video). His commercial work includes campaigns for Intel, Hyundai, History Channel, Renault, Škoda, and 7UP.

In 2023, Ishaan produced the widely acclaimed Vintage Bollywood sample library for Splice, with material from the library appearing in an Apple iPhone social media campaign. He was a finalist for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative (2016-17), mentored by Philip Glass, and his score for Scam 2003 won Best Soundtrack at the Talentrack Awards 2023. Earlier in his career, he worked as a sound designer for Boston-based Sonivox, creating commercially successful virtual instruments and sample libraries.

Ishaan has also collaborated with Academy Award-winning composer A. R. Rahman as a music producer. His work with Mr. Rahman includes Disney’s Million Dollar Arm, DreamWorks’ The Hundred-Foot Journey, Majid Majidi’s Muhammad: The Messenger of God, Imagine Entertainment’s Pelé: Birth of a Legend, Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House, and several Hindi and Tamil film projects including Highway, Mom, Kochadaiiyaan, OK Kanmani, Tamasha, and Mohenjo Daro.
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