Samuel is widely considered to be one of the most exceptional musical talents of his generation. His beautifully evocative music and award-winning film and television scores are fast making him one of the most sought-after composers working in the industry today.

Early in his career, Samuel quickly stood out from the crowd with his award-winning score for the BBC’s Dunkirk. A whirlwind success followed which soon saw him composing for the Hollywood feature film Awake for the Weinstein Company.

Samuel’s recent projects include four ITV feature films based on Georges Simoneson’s Maigret novels starring Rowan Atkinson, ITV and Left Bank Pictures’ major eight-part drama The Halcyon, BBC’s dark and gritty drama Paula directed by Alex Holmes, ITV’s hugely successful Homefires, and Born To Kill for World Productions and BBC. Other recent project include C4’s drama The Mill (for which Sam’s score received an Ivor Novello nomination), ITV’s Chasing Shadows, and the Charlie Brooker/Daniel Maier comedy creation Touch Of Cloth. He also composed a wonderfully evocative score for the riveting Stop At Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story.

In 2008, Sam wrote the score for the BAFTA and Emmy Award winning House of Saddam, employing a unique blend of styles and instrumentation. Rare middle-eastern voices and instruments and dark, intense electronica were masterfully mixed with a full classical string orchestra. Described by one critic as: “superbly pitched somewhere between Stravinsky and The Chemical Brothers…”

Samuel showed his strong command of classical disciplines with his beautiful orchestral score for the lavish BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, earning him a RTS Award nomination for best musical score. In stark contrast, the dark haunting music for Tiger Aspects submarine thriller, The Deep, starring Minnie Driver and James Nesbitt, was also nominated for an RTS Award.

Other career highlights include the ITV drama series The Reckoning, David Attenborough’s Climate Chaos series and additional music for the feature films Bobby, starring Antony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Laurence Fishburne & Shia LaBeouf; Doogal, for the Weinstein Company; The Damned United starring Michael Sheen & Timothy Spall and ABC’s primetime drama, Combat Hospital.

Samuel scored Of Two Minds, starring Kristin Davis & Tammy Blanchard, and the critically acclaimed We Are Poets, which released in the summer of 2013. Also that year he wrote the music for Left Bank’s flagship series Mad Dogs for Sky 1, the BBC series By Any Means, and the hugely successful ITV drama series, Ice Cream Girls.

“An extremely inventive and talented composer” (Michael Kamen: Film Composer)

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