Nathen Durasamy is a British born Mauritian composer. Nathen predominantly works as a composer for film and TV. He most recently worked as scoring assistant to Segun Akinola (composer on Doctor Who) and Nathen contributed additional music to the BBC Documentary Kingdom with David Attenborough.

His orchestrations and arrangements have featured in the Royal Albert Hall on the BBC Proms (2023) and at the Brit Awards (2025). He has worked in the pop world and orchestrated The Last Dinner Party’s second Album: ‘From The Pyre’ with Aurora Nishevci (band member of TLDP). And worked as an orchestrator for Jax Jones and INFLO. 

Nathen has worked with the following orchestras: BBC NOW, FAMES Macedonia, Budapest Scoring, St Pauls Sinfonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Misbourne Symphony Orchestra. Nathen has also worked with London Orchestras recorded at AIR Studios, RAK and Angel Studios. 

Nathen Durasamy studied composition under John Ashton Thomas (formerly the orchestrator for John Powell). Nathen was the first person in history to receive a grade of 100% in composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. And has received multiple awards for his compositions. Including the Award of Excellence and the Daryl Runswick Orchestral prize (judged by Stephen Fry).

Stephen Fry on Nathen’s Orchestral work Enantiodromia:

“Marvellous piece, lovely dark openings in the cello and basses. A lot of wonderful texture and colour built into a terrific harmonically rich mixture.. An odd thing to say about music but I thought it was complex, I thought it was intelligent. There was a lot going on, the brass section was so beautifully coloured, a lot of rhythmic power, terrific orchestration generally speaking…Someone might say there was too much for such a small canvas but I thought it fitted really well. I was immensely impressed.”

Stephen Fry