Matthew Slater - Film & TV Music Composer & Conductor
22 June 2023
Newsdesk
Matthew Slater - Film & TV Music Composer & Conductor. From Tea Boy to Morse, Endeavour, Grace & Tom Jones for ITV
Matthew Slater is an experienced composer and conductor, spanning many styles across feature film, short film and TV dramas alike. Matthew's diverse skills cross sound design, synths scores right up to the full orchestral and chamber classical approach to composing to picture. His latest work Endeavour Variations is released with the lead track, ‘Dots and Dashes’.
His experience in the industry of film and television spans two decades across a huge variety of styles and genres, with work on ITV’s huge global success ENDEAVOUR, which has garnered him a new platform composing for film and drama. More recently, Matthew has scored for ITV’s dramatization of Peter James' global success and bestselling novels GRACE, and will continue writing for its fourth series next year.
A creative, diverse, and professional collaborator. Starting as a tea boy, learning the art of music at college, orchestrating, preparing music scores and finally composing and conducting gave Matthew a particularly unique understanding of the art of writing music for moving images. Slater has fought personal ups and downs to get to this point in his career, from his diagnosis with Lymphoma, which motivated his career as a composer, to his pride as a father.
Endeavour IX Series Finale video
ITV, BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, and numerous international stations have all broadcast Matthew's work across the world on a regular basis.
Matthew’s most recent work is the recently broadcast ITV/PBS Masterpiece 4-parter Tom Jones based on Henry Fielding’s classic novel ‘The History of Tom Jones’, produced by Benjamin Greenacre and directed by Georgia Harris for Mammoth Screen. Now with plans for his solo piano album also in the pipeline, Matthew’s career as a well-respected composer and conductor is exciting and full of even more success for the future.
