
Matt is the UK’s, and indeed one of the world’s, leading orchestrators, arrangers and conductors, who has also managed to develop a successful parallel career as a talented film, TV and theatre composer.
He has worked on over 200 movies, including; No Time To Die, Judy, Stan & Ollie, Vice, Black Swan, Inception, Loving Vincent, Mission Impossibles: Rogue Nation and Fallout, Noah, The Great Gatsby, World War Z, Moulin Rouge, Batman: The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, Pirates of the Caribbean 3&4: On Stranger Tides /At Worlds End, Ray, Kung Fu Panda 2 &3, The Incredible Hulk, Love Actually, The Road, The Quiet American, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Bone Collector, Iron Man, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, World Trade Center, The Assassination of Jesse James, and video games including Halo 4, Beyond: Two Souls and Halo 5.
Matt has worked with pop/rock acts such as Billie Eilish (his co-arrangement of her Bond song No Time To Die reaching number 1 in the UK Charts), U2, Sam Smith, Massive Attack, Rufus Wainwright, Radiohead, Patti Smith, Tom Jones, Elliot Smith, Badly Drawn Boy, Dido, Jamelia, Nick Cave, The Pet Shop Boys, Editors, Catatonia, Lianne La Havas, Emeli Sandé and Goldie as well as classical artists, Kronos Quartet, Jose Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti, Russell Watson, Vanessa Mae and Il Divo.
He has conducted all of the UK’s top orchestras, including The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Sinfonietta, The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, The Chamber Orchestra of London and The London Contemporary Orchestra, as well as international ensembles such as The Los Angeles Philharmonic (at The Hollywood Bowl), The Sydney Symphony Orchestra (at the Sydney Opera House), The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Hong Kong Philharmonic, The Brussels Philharmonic, The Czech Symphony Orchestra, The Norwegian National Ballet Orchestra, The NRK Symphony Orchestra (Oslo), The Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, The Mons Orchestra (Brussels), The North West Symphony (Seattle), The Babelsberg Film Orchestra (Berlin) and numerous top studio orchestras and choirs in London, New York and Los Angeles.
Matt has scored feature films including: The Four Musketeers, directed by Pierre Aknine and starring Emmanuelle Béart and the action thriller Storm Force (Windkracht 10), directed by Hans Herbots. He has also scored a number of network series for British Television including Spirit Warriors, I Saw You, Rescue Me, Safe as Houses and Number 13, as well as music for major adverts and production libraries.
In 2018/19 Matt was asked to become musical director for the Judy Garland film biopic Judy, working very closely with the film’s star Renée Zellweger, and arranging and conducting all the musical numbers in the movie. Renée’s performance went on to win her a Golden Globe, Bafta and Oscar.
For the theatre, he wrote and arranged all the music for the ground-breaking arena version of Peter Pan: The Neverending Story, that opened in Brussels December 2012, before embarking on theatre and arena tours of Europe and the Middle East, and he has also written Flanders Fields and Cinderella for theatrical productions in Belgium, Singapore and the Middle East. Upcoming productions include composing a musical based on the hugely popular Chinese video game Honor of Kings, to tour China next year. In the summer of 2018 Matt conducted the premiere of The Hamlet Complex for the Norwegian National Ballet in Oslo, directed by the acclaimed choreographer Alan Lucien Oyen.
In 2016 Matt released his critically acclaimed debut solo album, Six Cycles, on the Village Green label, which reached the Top 20 in the UK Classical Charts and featured as part of a contemporary dance work, Meta, by Charlotte Edmonds for the Royal Ballet Covent Garden in London, and as part of the score for the French movie La Fete Des Meres. Matt’s second solo album, Cycles 7-16, was released in January 2018, music from which has been used in the Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 11/9. His 3rd solo album “Pictures at an Exhibition” will be released autumn 2020 on the Pias label.
Matt studied trumpet and piano at the London College of Music and then went on to work with world-renowned film orchestrator Christopher Palmer. This led to him working with the award-winning Scottish film composer, Craig Armstrong, for over 20 years. Since 2009 Matt has orchestrated and conducted exclusively for Golden Globe and Ivor Novello nominated composer Clint Mansell, and for the last 19 years Matt has also orchestrated and conducted for the superstar Indian composer, and Bafta, Golden Globe, double Grammy and two-time Oscar winning, A.R. Rahman. Furthermore he regularly works with many of the most exciting names in film composition today – including Nicholas Brittel, Hans Zimmer, Marco Beltrami and Ramin Djawadi.
Credits
THE WATER MAN | Harpo Films Director: David Oyelowo | |
JAMES BOND: NO TIME TO DIE (Title song) (with Hans Zimmer) | MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | |
REBECCA | Netflix Director: Ben Wheatley | |
JUDY | BBC Films Director: Rupert Goold | |
GEMINI MAN | Skydance Media Director: Ang Lee | |
THE AFTERMATH | Fox Searchlight Pictures Director: James Kent | |
THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING | Twentieth Century Fox / Big Talk Productions Director: Joe Cornish | |
WE | 14 Film Director: Mani Nasry | |
OUT OF THE BLUE | BBC Films Director: Carol Morley | |
VICE | Annapurna Pictures Director: Adam McKay | |
2.0 | Dakshaa Director: S. Shankar | |
STAN & OLLIE | Entertainment One / Sony Pictures Classics Director: John S. Baird | |
HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD | Rock Films Director: Ben Wheatley | |
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT | Paramount Pictures Director: Christopher McQuarrie | |
THE DEATH OF STALIN | Quad Productions Director: Armando Iannucci | |
ONLY THE BRAVE | Black Label Media / Columbia Pictures Corp Director: Joseph Kosinski | |
BATTLE OF THE SEXES | Fox Searchlight Pictures Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | |
KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE | Twentieth Century Fox Director: Matthew Vaughn | |
MUTE | Liberty Films UK Director: Duncan Jones | |
LOVING VINCENT | BreakThru Productions Director: Dorota Koiela, Hugh Welshman | |
VICEROY’S HOUSE | Pathé / BBC Films Director: Gurinder Chadha | |
THE ADVENTURERS | Gravity Pictures Director: Stephen Fung | |
GHOST IN THE SHELL | Paramount Pictures Director: Rupert Sanders | |
THE BABY BOSS | DreamWorks Animation Director: Tom McGrath | |
THEIR FINEST | BBC Films Director: Lorne Scherfig | |
A CURE FOR WELLNESS | 20th Century Fox / Regency Films Director: Gore Verbinski | |
SPLIT | Universal Pictures / Blinding Edge Pictures Director: M. Night Shyamalan | |
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION | Bad Robot Director: Christopher McQuarrie | |
HIGH-RISE | Recorded Picture Company Director: Ben Wheatley | |
NINA | Ealing Studios Director: Cynthia Mort | |
THE GUNMAN | StudioCanal Director: Pierre Morel | |
MUHAMMAD | Nourtaban Film Industry Director: Majid Majid | |
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE | Twentieth Century Fox Director: Matthew Vaughn | |
SEVENTH SON | China Film Co. Director: Sergey Bodrov | |
DRACULA UNTOLD | Universal Pictures Director: Gary Shore | |
THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | Amblin Entertainment Director: Lasse Hallström | |
KOCHADAIIYAAN | Media One Global Entertainment Director: Soundarya R. Ashwin | |
MILLION DOLLAR ARM | Walt Disney Pictures Director: Craig Gillespie | |
NOAH | Paramount Pictures Director: Darren Aronofsky | |
POMPEII | TriStar Pictures Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | |
THE LEGEND OF HERCULES | Millennium Films Director: Renny Harlin | |
HALF A YELLOW SUN | Slate Films Director: Biyi Bandele | |
WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 3D | Animal Logic / BBC Earth Directors: Barry Cook, Neil Nightingale | |
THE CHRISTMAS CANDLE | Pinewood Studios Director: John Stephenson | |
2 GUNS | Universal Pictures Director: Baltasar Kormakur | |
WORLD WAR Z | Paramount Pictures Director: Marc Forster | |
FAST AND FURIOUS 6 | Universal Pictures Director: Justin Lin | |
THE GREAT GATSBY | Warner Bros Pics Director: Baz Luhrmann | |
FILTH | Steel Mill Pictures Director: John S. Baird | |
JAPPALOUP | Acajou Films Director: Christian Duguay | |
THE HYPNOTIST | Filmpool Nord Director: Lasse Hallstrom | |
STOKER | Fox Searchlight Pics Director: Chan Wook Park | |
ABRAHAN LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER | Tim Burton Prods Director: Timur Bekmambetov | |
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES | Warner Bros Pics Director: Christopher Nolan | |
HALO 4 | (Video Game) 343 Industries Director: Frank O’Connor, Brien Goodrich | |
LES SEIGNEURS | Vito Films Director: Oliver Dahan | |
KOCHADAIYAAN | Eros Int’l Director: Soundaraya Ranjindkanth | |
MADAGASCAR 3: Europe’s Most Wanted | Pacific Data Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon | |
PEOPLE LIKE US | Dreamworks SKG Director: Alex Kurtzman | |
SAFE HOUSE | Universal Pictures Director: Daniel Espinosa | |
GRABBERS | High Treason Prods Director: Jon Wright | |
IN TIME | Regency Director: Andrew Niccol | |
THE THREE MUSKETEERS | Impact Pictures Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | |
KUNG FU PANDA | Dreamworks Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson | |
PIRATES OF THE CARRIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES | Walt Disney Pictures Director: Rob Marshall | |
UNITED | World Productions Director: James Strong | |
THE ITALIAN KEY | Old Trace Roaf Prods Director: Rosa Caro | |
THE LAST DRAGON | Columbia Pictures Director: Mario Andreacchio | |
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE | Corsan Director: Lee Tamahori | |
127 HOURS | Cloud Eight Films Director: Danny Boyle | Nominated for BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award For Film Music |
BLACK SWAN | Fox Searchlight Director: Darren Aronofsky | |
INCEPTION | Warner Bros Director: Christopher Nolan | Oscar Nomination Best Original Score |
WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS | Edward R Pressman Films Director: Oliver Stone | |
CEMETERY JUNCTION | Columbia Pictures Director: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant | |
CLASH OF THE TITANS | Warner Bros Director: Louis Leterrier | |
KICK ASS | Plan B Ents Director: Matthew Vaughan | |
COUPLES RETREAT | Universal Director: Peter Billingsley | |
THE FATTEST MAN IN BRITAIN | ITV Director: David Blair | |
THE INVENTION OF LYING | Warner Bros Director: Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson | |
THE ROAD | Dimension Director: John Hillcoat | |
THE DARK NIGHT | Warner Bros Director: Christopher Nolan | |
THE INCREDIBLE HULK | Universal Director: John Hillcoat | |
IRON MAN | Paramount Director: Jon Favreau | |
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL | Focus Features Director: Justin Chadwick | |
27 DRESSES | Fox 2000 Director: Anne Fletcher | |
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE | Universal Director: Shekah Kapur | |
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSIE JAMES BY THE COWARD… | Warner Bros Director: Andrew Dominik | |
MONGOL | Kimokompaniya CTB Director: Sergey Bodrov | |
PIRATES OF THE CARRIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END | Walt Disney Director: Gore Verbinsky | |
SUNSHINE | DNA Films Director: Danny Boyle | |
OPEN SEASON | Columbia Pictures Director: Roger Allers, Jill Culton, Anthony Stacchii | |
WORLD TRADE CENTER | Paramount Director: Oliver Stone | |
BASIC INSTINCT II | MGM Director: Michael Caton Jones | |
FEVER PITCH | Fox 2000 Pics Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly | |
BRIDE & PREJUDICE | Pathe Pics Int. Director: Gurinder Chadha | |
RAY | Universal Pics Director: Taylor Hackford | BAFTA Nomination for Anthony Asquith Award For Film Music |
HAWKING | BBC Director: Phillip Martin | |
LOVE ACTUALLY | Universal Pics / Working Title Director: Richard Curtis | |
THE MAGDELENE SISTERS | Scottish Screen Director: Peter Mullan | |
KISS OF THE DRAGON | Europa Corp Director: Chris Nahon | |
MOULIN ROUGE | 20th Century Fox Director: Baz Lurhmann | Won BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award For Film Music |
SAVING GRACE | Portman Ents Group Director: Nigel Cole | |
THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS | Fine Line Features Director: Adam Brooks |
STORM FORCE | MMG Film Director: Hans Herbots Producer: Hilda De Leare, Erwin Provoost |
THE FOUR MUSKETEERS | GMT, Transfilm, Spice Factory, Eos, Okko Prods. Director: Pierre Aknine Producer: Jean Pierre Guerin, Veronique Marchat Starring: Emmanuel Beart, Tcheky Karyo |
HIS DARK MATERIALS (Conductor) | Bad Wolf/ BBC Directors: Jamie Childs, William McGregor, Tom Hooper |
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (Music Supervisor) | 3 Arts Entertainment/ Hulu Directors: Catherine Morshead, Tristram Shapeero |
THE FADES | (Conductor) BBC Director: Farren Blackburn, Tom Shankland Producer: Caroline Skinner |
SPIRIT WARRIORS | BBC Director: Jon East, Matt King Producer: Cahal Bannon, Jon East, Nick Pitt |
NUMBER 13 | BBC Director: Pier Wilkie Producer: Richard Fell, Sue Smith |
RESCUE ME | Tiger Aspect Director: Kate Dennis, Julia Holmes Producer: Christine Langan |
SAFE AS HOUSES | BBC Director: Tom Vaughan Producer: Tom Vaughan Starring: Ricky Tomlinson |
I SAW YOU | Granada Director: Tom Vaughan Producer: Christine Langan Starring: Fay Ripley, Paul Rhys |
PETER PAN: The World Arena Tour | Roel Hermanns Prods Director: Luc Petit Producer: Geert Allaert |
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New Star Wars series ‘Andor’ premieres 21st September with Nicholas Britell’s score orchestrated and conducted by Matt Dunkley
Matt Dunkley has orchestrated and conducted Nicholas Britell’s score to the new Star Wars series ‘Andor’ which premieres on Disney+ Wednesday 21st September. ‘The “Andor”

‘No Time To Die’ released in UK and US cinemas – score conducted and co-arranged by Matt Dunkley
The hugely anticipated new James Bond film ‘No Time To Die’ for which Matt Dunkley conducted and co-arranged Hans Zimmer’s score and the theme song

‘The Pursuit of Love’ orchestrated and arranged by Matt Dunkley
Matt Dunkley has worked as orchestrator and arranger alongside composer Clint Mansell on the music for the new BBC show ‘The Pursuit of Love’. An

Billie Eilish’s James Bond Theme Song ‘No Time to Die’ conducted and co-arranged by Matt Dunkley wins Grammy Award
The theme song for the new James Bond film ‘No Time To Die’ performed by Billie Eilish and conducted and co-arranged by Matt Dunkley with

Grammy Awards – Matt Dunkley, Atli Örvarsson and Lorne Balfe projects receive nominations
The theme song for the new James Bond film ‘No Time To Die’ performed by Billie Eilish and conducted and co-arranged by Matt Dunkley with

Matt Dunkley has orchestrated and conducted Clint Mansell’s score for ‘Rebecca’
Matt Dunkley has worked as orchestrator and conductor with composer Clint Mansell on the score for the new Working Title film ‘Rebecca’, an adaption of

New James Bond Theme Song ‘No Time To Die’ – conducted and co-arranged by Matt Dunkley
COOL Music are proud to say that Matt Dunkley has conducted and co-arranged with Hans Zimmer, the new James Bond theme song ‘No Time To

Matt Dunkley acts as Musical Director on upcoming ‘Judy’ film
Matt Dunkley has worked alongside composer Gabriel Yared on Rupert Goold’s upcoming Judy Garland Biopic ‘Judy’. The films stars Renée Zellweger as Judy whose fantastic performance is likely to attract the attention of The Academy Awards.
Check out the trailer below.

COOL Music Ltd well represented at this year’s World Soundtrack Awards!
(Pictured above: Composers Joe Kraemer, Dan Jones and Matt Dunkley) Also, huge congratulations to Rupert Gregson-Williams (pictured below) on winning Best Television Composer of

COOL Music Clients Involved In 4 of 10 Feb Top Grossing Films
The LEGO Batman Movie – Scored by Lorne Balfe Hidden Figures – Scored by Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams Split – Orchestrated and

Two films scored by COOL Music composer clients in box office top 5!!
This weekend’s U.S. box office ratings sees Rachel Portman and Benjamin Wallfisch in the top 5 grossing films for A Dog’s Purpose and Hidden Figures,

Sainsbury’s ‘The Greatest Gift’ Christmas Campaign
Music orchestrated and produced by Matt Dunkley.
Vocals James Cordon.
Performed by the Chamber Orchestra Of London.