Shwetant Kumar

Shwetant Kumar is an Indian composer, multi-instrumentalist, and musicologist. He earned a B.M. (magna cum laude) in Film Scoring and Electronic Production and Design from Berklee College of Music (2020), and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Mumbai (2017).

Shwetant’s research examines the relationships between literature, theatre, cinema, music technology, socioeconomics, humor, and offensiveness. He has been commissioned to write articles by leading Indian online platforms such as Serenade Magazine and Scroll. As the archivist for the late Indian composer Vanraj Bhatia, he is currently writing and researching Bhatia’s authorized biography.

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