Steve Reich’s Different Trains is being performed by the Bergersen Quartet at the Brunel Museum in London later in June. I was honoured to be asked to score a new piece for the quartet earlier in the year titled Memoria Technica (first performed at the Plymouth International Music Festival earlier in 2013) which is to be included in the Different Trains concert. I’m honoured to be in such great company
Matthew has just completed work on his eighth production music library album, for Focus Music Publishing. Focus are an established label with 25 years experience in the business. This was Matthew’s first album with them, “It takes great deal of trust to commission a composer to write pieces that are not mocked up and exist (prior to recording) only as dots on manuscript paper. It was wonderful to work wit
June 2nd saw Matthew start recording for a new album with US label Sonic Quiver. This album is a mix of styles loosely based on NuJazz. The session was a great success thanks to such a great team of performers. The album will be released later this year. London Media Ensemble session lineup Leader: Roland Roberts Flute: Nick Cartledge Ten. Sax: Harry Lightfoot Trumpets: Tom Walsh, Freddie Gavita Trombone: Jon Stok
Matthew recently delivered 30 new tracks for an exciting new production music library set up by the vibrant publishing company, Accorder. Picture Lock are set up to deliver quality content right to the heart of independent television in the UK. Matthew siad, “It’s a rare and exciting time to be involved with such a high quality library at the start of their business. It shows that there is room in a cro
Earlier this year, Matthew completed 17 tracks commissioned by CMA for Fox’s International network of channels. They were recorded at Angel Studio 1 in January by the Solaris Quartet and pianist John-Paul Gandy. The library will supply music across all of Fox’s channels and rolls out from March 2011. CUE0112 DawnRising MSTR v1 by Matthew Slater CUE0455 Comedy MSTR v2 by Matthew Slater CUE0031 Nat
Matthew was recently commissioned by the Association of Music Producers of America (AMP) to compose a piece as a setting to selected creative material supplied by some of New York’s most prestigious add agencies. Matthew was set a poem by BBDO’s David Lubars 17 year old son, Alex Lubars. Matthew collaborated with fellow composer, Brian Burrows to create a piece that drew upon the angst of the poem via the
Matthew has just completed a great few days at Potton Hall, recording an album of piano music for US library, Sonic Quiver. It’s always a joy to return to Potton as it’s in the middle of the Suffolk countryside and has a great acoustic. Paul Golding, long standing colleague, engineered the session, with John-Paul Gandy lending his enormous talent as concert pianist. Matthew and team were very lucky to re
Matthew scored the music for Chris Dundon’s Bro in 2009. The film has been selected for many international film festivals, and has now been added to the BBC’s Film Network web site. Some of the festivals include: Raindance Film Festival, 2010 Branchage Film Festival, 2010 Cinemagic Film Festival, 2010 Cambridge Film Festival, 2010 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2010 St. Louis Internationa
