In terms of musical success it would be chutzpah to ask for much more.

But despite such great accomplishments, Erran Baron Cohen, older brother of Sacha, is showing no signs of slowing down.

"I'd certainly like to carry on doing more film and TV scoring - they're both increasingly important to what I'm doing," explained Erran, who scored The Infidel, released on DVD on Monday.

"And I'm enjoying doing studio albums - I'd like to do more albums like Songs In The Key Of Hannukah .

"We performed Dreidel from that album on Late Night With Conan O'Brien in America in December 2008 which was fun and amazing."

Much like Erran's band Zohar, his Chanucah album fused traditional klezmer tones with reggae, hip-hop and electronic beats - a factor attributed to his eclectic musical taste.

"I have very wide-ranging musical influences, I listen to all kinds of different stuff," he said.

"I heard African music from quite an early age and I listened to reggae and electronic material like Kraftwerk.

"And Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder and Qawali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan have definitely all been influences."

Erran began playing the trumpet and piano when he was just nine and went on to study music at Goldsmiths and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He recalls the feeling of playing as part of an orchestra.

"It was inspiring just sitting in an orchestra and it was great playing in brass bands," he continued.

"I think all the eclectic musical experiences I've had are reflected in my compositions.

"For example, in the score for Brüno I was able to produce electronic gay house beats, but in The Infidel I used klezmer instruments - the clarinet, double bass and accordion - to get traditional sounding melodies, but added an electric guitar so it wasn't done in a traditional way."

Zohar formed when Erran was asked to write a piece of music for a community play which looked at issues of Jewish identity.

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He explained: "I took old Yiddishe records and put Arabic beats on the top and that's what became the first track - Elokeinu.

"It was an interesting area of music that no one had done yet."

After compilations with Buddha Bar, Zohar signed to Miles Copeland's record label and toured the world - although their success was mainly underground.

So, how does this musical whiz balance working in such polar musical environments?

"Writing for TV, film and studio are all completely different," Erran explained.

"With a film score everything is dictated by how the scenes are edited and there are always technical considerations before I can write anything."

The composer talks openly about the interest in clashing cultures that seems to have nurtured his career and he believes this too played a factor in why he was picked to work on David Baddiel's The Infidel.

"Most importantly was that I had written music for comedy before, with Borat and Ali G ," he said.

"But my interest in Jewish and Arabic music was a bonus and fitted exactly what this particular film needed."