About Matthew

Background

De Lane Lea Studio One, where Cold Mountain was mixed.

After graduating from the rigorous and intensive four year Tonmeister course, Matthew started as a classical music engineer/producer for big labels such as Decca, DG, EMI, and many others. Early on, however, he discovered a natural talent for film sound, and moved into post production sound for picture, beginning at Boom Ltd working with Paul Hamblin.

He soon moved to De Lane Lea, where he rapidly gained experience and a reputation working on some of the highest-profile projects in the country at the time. It was whilst at De Lane Lea that he received a nomination for a British Academy Award for his work with Walter Murch and Mike Prestwood-Smith on Cold Mountain.

In the spring of 2005 he left De Lane Lea to pursue a freelance career as a mixer and Director of Sound.

Experience

Matthew has a well-established track record as an effects mixer on large-scale Hollywood films (The Brothers Grimm, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Cold Mountain) and a growing reputation as lead mixer (including Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering, the critically-acclaimed Do I Love You? from independent film-maker Lisa Gornick and Making Waves from Eden Films). He has recenty completed work as re-recording mixer and sound supervisor on The Deaths of Ian Stone, and has several major projects in negotiation for the next twelve months as either effects mixer, lead mixer, sound supervisor or Director of Sound.

A well-known face about town, he has practical experience in most of the major Soho dubbing theatres, as well as good connections with the non-central London based studios such as Pinewood-Shepperton. He is also closely involved with smaller independent film companies, and uses the very latest equipment to provide a high-specification track-lay and 5.1 mix within the budget structure of these projects.