MUSIC AT MATRIX presents: Neil Brand - November 2025

What an edcuational experience Neil Brand’s show was - our students loved it, as did their parents and members of the wider community. He played music to a variety of silent films and discussed the process behind his accompaniments. Truly inspirational. Thank you to Yamaha Music School UK for their sponsorship. Below are a some video clips from the event.

Neil Brand is a distinguished composer/writer/performer/broadcaster. He has toured the world as a well-known live accompanist for silent film and has a very fruitful relationship with the BBC Symphony Orchestra with his acclaimed orchestral scores for Hitchcock’s silent Blackmail, and Fairbanks’s Robin Hood, published by Faber Music, and his Concert Dramas including Wind in the Willows and A Christmas Carol. Most recently he has composed Echoes of the North with the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, The Hound of the Baskervilles for the BBC with Mark Gatiss as Sherlock (BBC4) as well as the score for the 1925 western The Winning of Barbara Worth which opens the Locarno festival this year. He is well-known as a TV presenter with five hugely successful ‘Sound of …’ series on BBC4, is a regular presenter on the Proms, Radio 4's Add to Playlist and Soul Music, is a Fellow of Aberystwyth University and a Member and Visiting Professor of the Royal Academy of Music, was awarded the BASCA Gold Badge in 2016 and is considered one of the finest improvising musicians and musical storytellers in the world. www.neilbrand.com