 June 2011
Matthew is delighted to be represented by Berlin Associates.
Other Berlin Associates artists include Steven Moffat (DR WHO, SHERLOCK), Andy Hamilton (OUTNUMBERED), Charles Hart (PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, ASPECTS OF LOVE), and Herbert Kretzmer (LES MISERABLES).
 May 2011The original recording of Matthew Strachan and Bernie Gaughan's musical play SILK has been released by Nessus Records on iTunes and Amazon. Artists featured on the album include Riona O'Connor, Stephen Carlile, Sévan Stephan, Kim Ismay, Louise Gold, and Fred Ridgeway. read more
 March 2011An album of Matthew's incidental theatre music is now on release on the Nessus Records label at iTunes and Amazon. The compliation includes music from Ben Brown's THE PROMISE, Tim Luscombe's HUNGRY GHOSTS, Arlene Hutton's LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC, and Nigel Dennis's THE MAKING OF MOO. preview tracks
 November 2010
Matthew provided music for the premiere of Tim Luscombe's play, HUNGRY GHOSTS at the Orange Tree Theatre this November. Tim Luscombe directed with design by Tim Meacock.
Top British racing driver Tyler Jones arrives in Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix. His life comprises airports, hotels, racetracks, corporate events and 'brolly dollies'. For Tyler, Shanghai is no different from Bahrain or Melbourne. He’s happy to toe the corporate party line as long as he can do what he lives to do: race cars. But when he meets and falls for Chinese dissident Pin-de, their worlds collide. Racing ambition seems suddenly futile set against Pin-de’s struggle for survival in authoritarian China. How can he square his new found awareness about the reality of life and death in China, and help Pin-de, without losing everything he has?
'full of passion'
The Times
'...the author's own production has a hectic vitality, and is well acted.'
The Guardian
'...could hardly be more topical or on the button.'
Time Out
 October 2010Matthew has been honoured at the 30th Annual ASCAP Awards this autumn in London for WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE being among the most broadcast TV themes in the US in 2009. Other honourees included Cathy Dennis, Paul McCartney, Bono, Nicholas Hooper and Coldplay. read more
 September 2010
With major film and TV credits to his name, the musical legacy of Klaus Harmony continues. The latest release is just as cheesy as Oeuvres one to four, with the usual array of comical track titles such as GIRL SCOUTS SEQUENZ #3 and CREAM THE OINK!
'some people on the internet - including the know-it-alls at Wikipedia - believed this moustache-sporting playboy is a spoof. Ridiculous.'
The Guardian
'titles that pack a visceral punch even before you hear them.'
LA Times
 May 2010
Two Klaus Harmony tracks are to be featured in the forthcoming BBC2 drama, MONEY.
Nick Frost (HOT FUZZ, SEAN OF THE DEAD, SPACED), Vincent Kartheiser (MAD MEN, ANGEL), Emma Pierson (LITTLE DORRIT, HOTEL BABYLON) and Jerry Hall (CALENDAR GIRLS, POPETOWN) have been announced to star in MONEY, a BBC Drama Production two-part adaptation of Martin Amis' darkly comedic tale of excess, greed and flawed ambition set at the beginnings of Eighties capitalism.
Bold, irreverent and satirical, MONEY follows the story of John Self (Nick Frost), a successful British director of commercials who is thrust into the world of New York movie deals, shark agents and impossibly petulant actors in order to shoot his first film.
'stylish and well acted'
Iain Stott - The One Line Review
 April 2010
A Klaus Harmony track is to be featured in the forthcoming motion picture EXTRACT, starring Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck and Mila Kunis.
Mike Judge's comedy about a flower-extract plant owner contending with an ever-growing avalanche of personal and professional disasters. An employee at the factory has just suffered an unfortunate accident on the assembly line, but little does the put-upon owner realize that things are about to get much worse. As the injured employee threatens to sue and it begins to look like his company will be bought out, the frazzled owner attempts to catch the culprit responsible for stealing wallets from the coat room and begins to suspect that his wife is sleeping with the gigolo he hired to seduce her.
'ably blends sharp humor and a sense of gleeful absurdity'
USA Today
 February 2010
Matthew has just finished writing music for THE PROMISE a new play by Ben Brown, directed by Alan Strachan at the Orange Tree Theatre.
It's the beginning of World War I and Herbert Samuel, the first practising Jew ever to sit in a British Cabinet, dreams of using British power to back a return of the Jews to Palestine after 1800 years. However, his cousin, Edwin Montagu, also in the Cabinet, and also Jewish, is implacably opposed to the idea, a conflict complicated by Montagu's passion for the young beautiful aristocrat, Venetia Stanley, a confidante of the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. As Venetia's developing relationship with Montagu threatens the status quo, personal and political concerns become increasingly tangled.
Politics, religion and love collide with world-changing effect in this new play of political and sexual intrigue, and the origins of Israel.
Brown's LARKIN WITH WOMEN won the TMA Best New Play award in 2000, and was presented at the Orange Tree Theatre in 2006 directed by Alan Strachan with Oliver Ford Davies as Larkin. THE PROMISE is Brown's latest play and this is its world premiere.
'Riveting...historical drama at its dialectical best'
The Guardian
'delivers a great deal of information in a consistently engrossing manner'
The Independent
 November 2009
Matthew has composed a musical score for Nigel Dennis's play THE MAKING OF MOO at the Orange Tree Theatre this autumn. Sam Walters will be directing and the design will be by Tim Meacock.
At the farewell ceremony for the creator of the new dam, a murder is committed. The engineer, Frederick Compton, learns that while he may have brought this backward nation electricity and water, he has killed their river god. He and his wife cannot simply abandon the country to a lawless, godless future. They must stay. A new god must be created.
First presented at the Royal Court with a cast that included Joan Plowright, John Osborne and George Devine as the civil engineer turned high priest, who said of this biting satire "exactly what I want to have said in my theatre."
'intelligent, funny and blasphemous'
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