John McDowell

John McDowell achieved worldwide recognition with his soundtrack to the Academy Award winning documentary Born Into Brothels. Among the many subsequent film scores by McDowell are Higher Love (winner of Slamdance Grand Jury Award), Salam, Sold, and Jimmy In Saigon. Winner of several awards for his compositions, McDowell is known for much more than just his film scores, McDowell formed the world music band Mamma Tongue and has toured with Rusted Root and Krishna Das and recorded with Sting; he is the music director and arranger for Tibetan singer Ani Choying. McDowell’s formal education in classical and jazz music and subsequent informal global training of African and Indian music, has made him a largely self-taught ethnomusicologist of wide-ranging scale.