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Matthew Bennett

Matthew Bennett is an award-winning composer, producer and ethnomusicologist. He received an international composition prize from Downbeat magazine while still in high school and carried out PhD work at the University of Washington. After conducting music research in Africa, he left academia to accept a position working in the international music group at Microsoft, before founding Temporal Arts Associates.

He has scored many films, including The Smith Family which won widespread critical acclaim and garnered a major industry award (Directors Guild of America, 2003). He has also created music for leading broadcast networks, game publishers, corporations and cultural organizations including: CBS, NPR, PBS, Microsoft, Cranium, BMW, The Government of Panama, Starbucks, Experience Music Project, Conservation International, The Smithsonian Institution and The Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

He lives is Seattle where he is the father of two, husband of one.

Matthew Bennett is Principal Composer at Temporal Arts Associates.