Arun Pandian began his professional career in 1998 as a guitarist on Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which sold more than 18 million copies worldwide and earned 5 Grammy Awards. He spent the next two years touring internationally with Hill, performing alongside artists including Carlos Santana, Mary J. Blige, and Nas, and appearing on the Grammy Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, and Saturday Night Live.
Since 2003, Arun has worked as a recording engineer and producer across a wide range of genres. He is the founder of Heliocentric Studios, with credits including Lenny Kravitz, Mumford & Sons, Norah Jones, Melody Gardot, David Lang, Amber Mark, Mon Laferte, Gavin DeGraw, Savion Glover, Mtume, and Gabriel Garzón-Montano.
He is also Assistant Program Director of Berklee NYC’s master’s program in Songwriting and Production at the historic Power Station recording studios.