Shwetant Kumar (born 1996) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, musicologist, and synthesiser programmer. He’s other things, too, but these are how he hopes to earn a living.

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Shwetant’s work encompasses literature, theatre, cinema, intellectual property, music technology, socioeconomics, humour, and offensiveness. He has been commissioned articles by leading Indian online platforms such as Scroll and Serenade. He is currently writing and researching Bollywood (forthcoming) in Bloomsbury’s Genre: A 33 1/3 Series, and the authorised biography of composer Vanraj Bhatia, for whom he was an archivist.

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Shwetant earned a BM (magna cum laude) in Film Scoring and Electronic Production and Design from Berklee College of Music (2020), and a BA in English Literature from the University of Mumbai (2017). He is also a student of composer Alla Elana Cohen and Gwalior gharana vocalist Neela Bhagwat.

 

Shwetant enjoys the company of his friends, and spends the little spare time he has working towards a PhD in Ethnomusicology at Yale University.