Matt Dunkley

Matthew Charles Dunkley
Matthew Charles Dunkley
Born	Charles Dunkley; August 2, 1964 (age 57); Croydon, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Conductor, Orchestrator, Arranger, Composer
Website	www.mattdunkley.com

Career[]

Grammy nominated Matt Dunkley 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: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible – 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 Kung Fu Panda 2 Kung Fu Panda 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 and the song was Grammy nominated), U2, Sam Smith, Massive Attack, Rufus Wainwright, Radiohead, Patti Smith, Tom Jones, Elliot Smith, Badly Drawn Boy, Biffy Clyro, 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 BBC National Orchestra of Wales, 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 and writing additional music. Renée's performance went on to win her a Golden Globe, Bafta and Oscar, and Matt was Grammy nominated for producing the accompanying soundtrack album.

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 2021. 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 he 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 2021 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 Britell, Hans Zimmer, Marco Beltrami and Ramin Djawadi.

Film music[]

2021 No Time to Die (arranger title song) / (conductor title song) / (score conductor)
2021 Finding 'Ohana (conductor)
2020 Locke & Key (TV series) (conductor – 10 episodes)
2020 Wonder Woman 1984 (conductor)
2020 The Water Man (orchestrator)
2020 Rebecca (conductor) / (lead orchestrator)
2020 My Psychedelic Love Story (TV movie documentary) (conductor)
2019 The Kid Who Would Be King (arranger) / (conductor) / (lead orchestrator)
2019 The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (orchestrator)
2019 The King (orchestrator)
2019 Swords and Sceptres: The Rani of Jhansi (orchestrator)
2019 Succession (TV series) (orchestrator – 18 episodes)
2019 Niemandsland – The Aftermath (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2019 Judy (additional music) / (conductor) / (musical director)
2019 His Dark Materials (TV series) (conductor – 8 episodes 2019)
2019 Gemini Man (orchestrator)
2019 Four Weddings and a Funeral (TV series) (on-set music supervisor – 4 episodes)
2019 Berlin, I Love You (orchestrator)
2018 Which Side Are You On? (orchestrator)
2018 Vice (lead orchestrator)
2018 Succession (TV series) (orchestrator – 10 episodes)
2018 Stan & Ollie (composer: additional music) / (on-set musical director) / (orchestrator)
2018 Pre-Nuptial (orchestrator – uncredited)
2018 Prague (orchestrator – uncredited)
2018 Out of Blue (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2018 Nobody Is Ever Missing (orchestrator – uncredited)
2018 Mute (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2018 Mission: Impossible – Fallout (conductor)
2018 Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm (orchestrator)
2018 La fete des mères (composer: additional music)
2018 Hilfe, ich hab meine Eltern geschrumpft (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2018 Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (orchestrator)
2018 Christmas Special (conductor)
2018 Call the Midwife (TV series) / (conductor – 1 episode)
2018 Backseat (orchestrator)
2018 Austerlitz (orchestrator)
2018 2.0 (conductor) / (lead orchestrator)
2017 The Death of Stalin (conductor)
2017 The Boss Baby (conductor)
2017 The Adventurers (orchestrator)
2017 No Way Out: Gegen die Flammen (conductor)
2017 Loving Vincent (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2017 Le petit Spirou (orchestrator)
2017 Kingsman: The Golden Circle (conductor)
2017 Kaatru Veliyidai (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2017 Hexe Lilli rettet Weihnachten (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2017 Ghost in the Shell (conductor) / (lead orchestrator)
2017 Viceroy's House (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2017 Battle of the Sexes - Gegen jede Regel (orchestrator)
2016 Warcraft: The Beginning (score reader)
2016 Spark: A Space Tail (conductor)
2016 Snøfall (TV series) (conductor - 24 episodes)
2016 Sainsbury's: The Greatest Gift (Video short) (arranger)
2016 Nina (conductor)
2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 (conductor: choir)
2016 Their Finest (orchestrator)
2016 Me Before You (orchestrator)
2016 A Cure for Wellness (additional orchestrations)
2015 Victor Frankenstein (orchestrator)
2015 The Gunman (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2015 Saints & Strangers (TV mini-series) (conductor - 1 episode)
2015 Muhammad: The Messenger of God (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2015 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (orchestrator)
2015 Man Down (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2015 High-Rise (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2015 Halo 5: Guardians (video game) (conductor)
2014 The Legend of Hercules (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2014 Seventh Son (conductor)
2014 Pompeii (conductor: London) / (orchestrator)
2014 Noah (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2014 Million Dollar Arm (orchestrator)
2014 The Hundred-Foot Journey (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2014 Kochadaiiyaan (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2014 Kingsman: The Secret Service (additional orchestrator)
2014 Dracula Untold (additional orchestrator)
2013 World War Z (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2013 Stoker - Die Unschuld endet (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2013 Jappeloup - Eine Legende (orchestrator)
2013 Half of a Yellow Sun (conductor)
2013 Fast & Furious 6 (additional orchestrator)
2013 Drecksau (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2013 Walking with Dinosaurs (orchestrator)
2013 The Great Gatsby (orchestrator)
2013 The Christmas Candle (score orchestrator)
2013 Beyond: Two Souls (video game) (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2013 2 Guns (orchestrator)
2012 People Like Us (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2012 The Dark Knight Rises (conductor)
2012 Safe House (additional orchestrations)
2012 Madagascar 3 (score reader)
2012 Halo 4 (video game) (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2012 Grabbers (conductor)
2012 Die Vollpfosten (conductor)
2012 Der Hypnotiseur (orchestrator)
2012 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (additional orchestrations)
2011 Zum Glück bleibt es in der Familie (conductor)
2011 Værelse 304 (conductor)
2011 United (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2011 The Italian Key (orchestrator)
2011 The Devil's Double (conductor)
2011 The Devil's Dosh (Short) (orchestrator)
2011 The Fades (TV mini-series) (conductor - 6 episodes)
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (conductor: choir)
2011 Kung Fu Panda 2 (score reader)
2011 In Time (orchestrator)
2011 The Three Musketeers (additional orchestrator)
2011 The Dragon Pearl (orchestrations)
2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (music arranger) / (orchestrator)
2010 Leap Year (orchestrator - uncredited)
2010 Kick-Ass (orchestrator)
2010 Clash of the Titans (orchestrator)
2010 Inception (conductor)
2010 Harjunpää & pahan pappi (conductor)
2010 Gulliver's Travels (additional orchestrator)
2010 Enthiran (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2010 Cemetery Junction (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2010 Black Swan (adaptor: music from "Swan Lake") / (arranger: music from "Swan Lake") / (score conductor) / (score orchestrator)
2010 127 Hours (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2009 The Road (conductor) / (music arranger)
2009 The Fattest Man in Britain (TV movie) (arranger) / (conductor)
2009 Safari (conductor)
2009 The Invention of Lying (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2009 Limo (orchestrator)
2009 Farewell (conductor)
2009 Grey's Anatomy (TV series) (music arranger - 1 episode)
2009 Glorious 39 (additional orchestrator)
2009 Blood: The Last Vampire (conductor)
2009 All Inclusive (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2008 The Home of Dark Butterflies (additional orchestrator) / (conductor)
2008 The Dark Knight (conductor: orchestra)
2008 The Curse of Steptoe (TV movie) (conductor - uncredited)
2008 The Children (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2008 Sauna (conductor)
2008 Iron Man (orchestrator)
2008 The Other Boleyn Girl (orchestrator)
2008 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (orchestrator)
2008 The Incredible Hulk (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2008 Caught in the Act (conductor)
2008 Arn: Riket vid vägens slut (orchestrator)
2008 27 Dresses (orchestrator)
2007 Sunshine (conductor)
2007 Suden vuosi (orchestrator)
2007 Röllin sydän (orchestrator - uncredited)
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (conductor: choir - as Matthew Dunkley)
2007 Elizabeth: The Golden Age (orchestrator)
2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2007 Mongol(orchestrator)
2007 Arn - Der Kreuzritter (arranger)
2006 World Trade Center (conductor: choir) / (orchestrator)
2006 Stormforce (conductor)
2006 Peaceful Warrior (conductor: orchestra)
2006 Open Season (conductor)
2006 Elephant Tales (orchestrator)
2006 Cold Case (TV series) (music arranger - 1 episode)
2006 Basic Instinct 2 (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2005 The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2005 A Lot Like Love (music arranger: song)
2005 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2005 Mrs. Harris (TV movie) (conductor - uncredited)
2005 Must Love Dogs (orchestrator)
2005 Fever Pitch (orchestrator)
2005 The Three Musketeers (TV series) (conductor) / (music producer) / (orchestrator)
2005 Die beste Mutter (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2005 Casanova (TV mini-series) (conductor - 3 episodes, 2005) (orchestrator - 3 episodes, 2005)
2004 Suzie Gold (orchestrator)
2004 Ray (orchestrator)
2004 Mindhunters (music arranger) / (orchestrator)
2004 Meenaxi: A Tale of 3 Cities (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2004 Bride & Prejudice (orchestrator)
2004 Hawking (TV movie) (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2004 Eiskalte Bedrohung (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2004 The Prince & Me (orchestrator)
2004 The Clearing (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2004 Alien vs. Predator (additional orchestrator)
2003-2005 Mile High (TV series) (music arranger - 34 episodes)
2003 Wächter über Himmel und Erde (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2003 Love Actually (orchestrator)
2003 The Order (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2003 Kiss of Life (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2003 American Wedding (music arranger: song - uncredited)
2002 The Legend of Bhagat Singh (conductor - uncredited) / (orchestrator - uncredited)
2002 New Best Friend (music arranger: song - uncredited)
2002 Moonlight (conductor)
2002 The Magdalene Sisters (additional orchestrator) / (conductor: Royal Scottish National Orchestra)
2002 The Quiet American (conductor) / (orchestrator)
2002 American Psycho II (Video) (music arranger: song - uncredited)
2001 The Invisible Circus (conductor) / (music arranger) / (orchestrator)
2001 South Kensington (music arranger: song - uncredited)
2001 Moulin Rouge! (additional music arranger) / (music preparation)
2001 Kiss of the Dragon (additional orchestrator)
2001 Driven (music arranger: song - uncredited)
2001 A Small Summer Party (TV movie) (music arranger: song)
2000 I Saw You (TV movie) (orchestrator)
2000 Saving Grace (additional orchestrator)
2000 Looking for Alibrandi (music arranger: song)
1999 Plunkett & Macleane (additional orchestrator) / (music preparation)
1999 Mansfield Park (midi transcriptions) / (supervising music copyist)
1999 An Ideal Husband (music preparation)
1999 The Muse (music copyist)
1999 The Bone Collector (additional orchestrator) / (music copyist)
1999 Eye of the Beholder (conductor) / (orchestrator)
1999 Best Laid Plans (music preparation)
1998 Dancing at Lughnasa (music preparation)
1998 A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (music preparation)
1996 The Proprietor (music copyist: London)

Composer[]

2019 We (post-production)
2010 Spirit Warriors: Backstage (TV movie documentary)
2010 Spirit Warriors (TV series) (10 episodes)
2006 Windkracht 10: Koksijde Rescue
2006 Number 13 (TV short)
2006 Fast Learners (short)
2005 The Three Musketeers (TV series) (2 episodes)
2002 Rescue Me (TV series) / (6 episodes)
2000 Safe as Houses (TV movie)
2000 I Saw You (TV movie)

Soundtrack[]

2018: Fahrenheit 11/9 (documentary) (performer/writer: "Cycle 2", Cycle 15")
2020: Rebecca (performer:“Dancing Till 3“) / (writer:“Dancing Till 3“)

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Matt Dunkley

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Matthew Charles Dunkley
Born	Charles Dunkley (1964-08-02) August 2, 1964 (age 57) Croydon, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Conductor, Orchestrator, Arranger, Composer
Website	www.mattdunkley.com