Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

BLAIR MOWAT

Blair Mowat has composed well over two hundred scores for film, theatre, and television, with clients ranging from The English National Ballet and The Royal Shakespeare Company to the likes of BBC, SKY & ITV. He is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning composer with over 15 years of experience, and is consistently in high demand. His work includes Class, an acclaimed 8-part Doctor Who spin-off series on BBC One, ITV International / Britbox's hit show McDonald & Dodds, and SKY’s The Amazing Mr. Blunden.
He composed the music to Russell T Davies’s latest drama Nolly, starring Helena Bonham Carter, earning him a TV BAFTA nomination for the score. This collaboration then led on to Men Up, a film Russell exec-produced, airing on BBC1 in late 2023. Doctor Jekyll, a new Hammer Horror film starring Eddie Izzard, will be released in the USA later this year.

Blair currently splits his time between Los Angeles, London and Edinburgh.

PAUL LEONARD-MORGAN

Paul Leonard-Morgan is a BAFTA award-winning, Emmy and Ivor Novello-nominated composer and producer. His unique cinematic style of fusing orchestra with electronica has put him in high demand as a score composer & band producer, as well as a performer and artist in his own right.

His film scores include DREDD, LIMITLESS, LAST BREATH, GIGI & NATE and 20th Century Studios BOSTON STRANGLER, starring Keira Knightley, directed by Matt Ruskin.  He has worked on a string of projects with Academy-Award winning director Errol Morris including the features THE B-SIDE, MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY, the award-winning Netflix series WORMWOOD and the Steve Bannon documentary AMERICAN DHARMA. Recent projects include this years’ INHERITANCE (teaming up again with Neil Burger), the Sundance feature THE TOMORROW MAN (starring Blythe Danner and John Lithgow), BEST SELLERS (starring Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza), the Emmy-winning The Hunt For Planet B, directed by Academy-Award nominee Nathaniel Kahn, as well as the HBO feature documentary LUCY THE HUMAN CHIMP. His collaborations with legendary composer Philip Glass began on Amazon’s series TALES FROM THE LOOP, winning them numerous awards, and continued with THE GREEN VEIL.

After beginning his career working with bands such as No Doubt, Simple Minds, Isobel Campbell, Snow Patrol & Belle and Sebastian, Leonard-Morgan went on to work on films including three short films accompanying Universal Studio’s DESPICABLE ME 2 and Fox/Evergreen’s $80 million feature animation WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 3D.  Leonard-Morgan’s first video game soundtrack (EA Games’ flagship BATTLEFIELD HARDLINE) was released in 2015, the success of which led him to score WARHAMMER: DAWN OF WAR 3 released in 2017, followed by the global hit CYBERPUNK 2077 and CALL OF DUTY MOBILE in 2021. Last year he released an album of remixes for DREDD’s 10th anniversary, released on Mondo, featuring collaborations with artists such as Mogwai and John Tejada.

Recent concert work includes his concerto commission for Orchestre Nationale de Bretagne, which premiered in France in 2021 and his latest album of études for piano and cello which is currently being choreographed by members of the San Francis ballet.

Currently you can listen to Paul’s score for Showtime’s FELLOW TRAVELERS for Paramount+ which is streaming now, written by Academy Award-nominee Ron Nyswaner (PHILADELPHIA). His latest collaboration with Philip Glass, for the documentary feature film THE PIGEON TUNNEL, premiered at Telluride and TIFF, and has received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination and Cinema Eye Honors nomination for Best Score. His most recent score can be heard in Netflix’s new original drama series, BODKIN (the first series by the Obama’s production company Higher Ground) as well as the new feature Last Breath (feat Woody Harrelson).