MATTHEW STRACHAN
Composer
Matthew
Strachan was born in London and educated at Dartington College of
Arts and Goldsmith’s College, University of London. After ten
years of composing music for television he spent two years writing
songs in Nashvlle before writing music and lyrics for the stage
musical
Next Door's Baby which
premiered in London in 2008. Matthew's best known music is the
soundtrack to the TV show
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? which
has accompanied the game the world over and has earned him several
industry awards. He is currently working on a new stage musical
with his wife Bernie Gaughan.
Music for television, radio and film includes
Celador Films Logo,
Celador Films; Super Millionaire, ABC Television;
The Charm Offensive,
ITV;
Britain’s Brainiest, International;
Victoria Wood’s History of the Sketch Show,
BBC1;
The People Versus, ITV;
Ben-Hur, US
Radio;
Winning Lines, BBC1;
Car Wars, BBC2;
Question Time, BBC1;
The Gemini Apes, BBC
Radio 4;
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, Worldwide;
A Kind of Hush, First
Film Company;
The Jasper Carrott Trial, BBC1;
Mind the Gap, ITV;
The Ward, ITV;
Nobblers, BBC
Radio 2;
Scratchy & Co, ITV;
Diggin’ The Dancin’ Queens, BBC1;
Talking Telephone Numbers, ITV;
The Detectives,
BBC1;
The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna, ITV;
Boogie Outlaws, BBC2.
Theatre music and musical direction includes:
Next Door's Baby,
Happy Birthday Dear Alice,
Orange Tree Theatre;
The Lodger, Theatre
Royal, Windsor;
The Rink, Orange
Tree Theatre;
Mad Dog Killer Leper Fiend, Edinburgh
Fringe;
The Fly,
Old Fire Station, Oxford;
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, Orange
Tree Theatre;
The Good Woman of Setzuan, Orange
Tree Theatre;
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Playhouse
Theatre;
Godspell, Webber
Douglas Academy;
Flora The Red Menace, Orange
Tree Theatre;
Imagine,
Liverpool Playhouse.
Music for commercial release includes
Toy Story Sing
Along, Disney;
Klaus harmony -
Oeuvre 1, Oeuvre Zwei and Oeuvre Derde, Judd Music; Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire?, Disney
Interactive and Sony Playstation; Next Door's Baby - 2006 Cast
Recording, Judd
Music.
Further information regarding Matthew's work can
be found at www.strawnygrawn.co.uk
and
at www.nextdoorsbabythemusical.com
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