Matthew Margeson Gets In Line With The Sky
I started banging around on an old organ that my parents had in the house when I was about 4 years old or so. My parents thought it would be a good idea to start some lessons very soon after. When I turned 5… they hired this old, old man to come to our house every week and give lessons. I think he was maybe 72 years old or so when he started teaching me, and he actually was my private instructor for the next 12 years.
Throughout my youth, I was very much involved in musical theatre. I was involved in a lot of community theatre, doing musical direction for performances. During this time, I also had a little part-time job working at a small local video rental store. Because there was very little foot traffic at the store – the employees basically just hung around all day and watched films. I think both of these situations were a good recipe for me to have a strong interest in film music. I watched a lot of movies, I played a lot of music, and had quite a bit of experience performing music live to people acting on stage.
I studied Film Scoring & Composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston, and shortly after – drove out to Los Angeles. That, and a little bit of working with the right people in LA kind of brings us to where I am today.
Dear Hans, just wanted to say that I think the score from Inception is arguably the best I have ever heard, and adds a huge amount of depth to the movie. The track "Time" actually moved me to tears and I’m 50 years old and have never experienced that kind of emotion from music before (although Gladiator came close!). Thank you very much for sharing your extraordinary gift with us, and I do hope that one day I will be able to hear your music performed live. Warm regards Richard Cooper
Matthew Margeson great composer !