Vivan Bhatti

Vivan Bhatti studied music at the Hochschule für Musik in München and the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf. He works as a freelance composer, guitarist and theatre musician. His work ranges from contemporary chamber music to experimental music and dance theatre, stage and film music, and electronic hip-hop-based productions.

Together with his brother Ketan Bhatti, he forms a composition and production team working at the intersection of new, electronic and popular music.

The spectrum of their compositions for film ranges from feature films to documentaries in both television and cinema productions. Their music theatre pieces explore themes of integration and exclusion and have premiered at venues such as the Neuköllner Oper, the Tischlerei at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Staatsoper Hannover.

Vivan Bhatti’s music features in productions at many major German-speaking theatres – including the Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspiel Köln, Staatstheater Dresden and Residenztheater München.

In 2019, he co-wrote the music for the urban dance show »Flying Pictures« with Ketan Bhatti; the show was created in collaboration with the Flying Steps and the artist duo Osgemeos, and premiered at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. The album of the same name was released by Sony Classical.

In September 2022, their opera »Berlin Alexanderplatz«, based on the novel of the same name by Alfred Döblin, premiered as a cross-disciplinary production at the Theater Bielefeld. Her opera »Der Rote Wal« premiered in June 2025 as a cross-genre musical theatre production at the Stuttgart State Opera.