2026 Princess Grace Award
Robert and Gloria Hausman Theater Honor
Nominated by: Beth Morrison Projects
Winner of Beth Morrison Projects’ “Next: Gen” Cycle 3 (2026) for MANU, Anuj Bhutani is a quickly emerging composer, performer, vocalist, and producer who has been described as “a force multiplier with more talents than time” (PATRON Magazine). His “alternately celestial and dark” music (John Schaefer, WNYC New Sounds) often features acoustic instruments and electronics, narrative depth, and genre-fluidity. He’s won Chamber Music America’s Classical Commissioning Grant, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and been selected for American Composer’s Orchestra’s Earshot, residencies at Loghaven and Atlantic Center for the Arts (2x), among others.
He earned his master’s degree at University of Southern California and his bachelor’s degree at University of North Texas.
