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Matthew Herbert

For the National:

Matthew Herbert is an award-winning composer, artist, producer and writer whose work ranges from more than 30 albums to scores for Oscar-winning films, as well as music for the National Theatre, Broadway, TV series, games and radio. In 2018 he published his first book The Music. Matthew Herbert is the creative director of the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

 

Training

Matthew Herbert holds a PhD in ethics of composing with sound.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: People, Places & Things (also in the West End and on Broadway) and The Hush

On Broadway: Machinal and Top Girls

Other theatre includes: Gundog and Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? for the Royal Court; Fatherland for Manchester International Festival and in the West End; and The Horse at the Barbican

TV

scores for Noughts and Crosses and The Responder

Film

scores for A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience, Gloria Bell and The Wonder

Albums

Bodily Functions and One Pig