Early career

Sacha Skarbek is a classically trained musician, taught by distinguished pianist Ronald Smith. He received music scholarships to Northbourne Park and The King's School, Canterbury. After graduating from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in music, Skarbek was musical director and keyboard player for Neneh Cherry, Beverley Knight, Alisha's Attic and Jon Bon Jovi.

Songwriting and production

Skarbek played a key role in the development of James Blunt with whom he wrote the worldwide No. 1 hit "You're Beautiful". Skarbek co-wrote six songs on the multi-platinum selling debut album "Back to Bedlam", including follow up singles "Goodbye My Lover" and "Wisemen". In 2008, Skarbek wrote "Cold Shoulder" with Adele. The song was released as a single from Adele's multi-platinum selling debut album "19". Over the years Skarbek wrote several songs on globally chart topping albums, including Jason Mraz's multi-platinum selling album "We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things" as well as Lana Del Rey's best-selling album "Born to Die". Skarbek co-wrote Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" with Mozella and Stephan Moccio which was later produced by Dr. Luke and Cirkut. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 and was awarded multi-platinum around the world.

In 2012, Skarbek set up his own production company, White Rope Music,^[1] which focuses on artist development.

Film music

Skarbek scored and supervised the music for the documentary film For No Good Reason, starring Johnny Depp. He also scored and collaborated with James Walsh on the soundtrack music for a film of Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby.^[2]