Anuj Bhutani is quickly emerging as a unique and versatile composer whose music often features visceral grooves; ethereal, meditative spaces; a combination of acoustic instruments and electronics, and a strong sense of narrative. Since 2020, he’s won an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, 1st prize in Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble’s Emerging Composer Competition, Verdigris Ensemble’s ION Composer Competition, Warren County Summer Music School’s Promising Young Composer Competition, Blank House Media’s Recording Competition, 3rd prize in the American Prize in Choral Composition and The Choral Project's Composition Competition, and  was a Finalist in the RED NOTE Composition Competition. He’s been selected for the NewAm Composer’s Lab, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival’s New Music Workshop at Yale School of Music, Albany Symphony’s Orchestrating for the 21st Century Workshop, RED NOTE Festival Composition Workshop, residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute and ACA, the IRCAM Forum, multiple SCI conferences, SEAMUS conference, Impulse New Music Festival, Nick Photinos’ “1:2:1” program, and New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. His work has been commissioned or performed by Ashley Bathgate, Raleigh Civic Symphony, Metropolis Ensemble, Verdant Vibes, Allen Philharmonic, Andrew Tholl of Wild Up, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Lauren Cauley Kalal of Switch~ ensemble, Inversion Ensemble (after winning the Happy Composer Commissioning Project), Daisy Press, the William Paterson University Percussion Ensemble, and more.

He is currently pursuing his master’s degree at USC with Ted Hearne. He completed his bachelor’s degree in composition at University of North Texas and received an Undergraduate Research Fellowship to study and write about the musical process/glitch in the music of David Lang under the guidance of Dr. David-Bard Schwarz, where he also served as the Undergraduate Vice President of UNT Composer’s Forum. His primary composition teachers have included Joseph Klein, Andrew May, Sungji Hong, Drew Schnurr, and UNT Composer-in-Residence Bruce Broughton. He also holds a BA in Psychology from UT Austin.