Blair Mowat

Biography

Blair has composed over two hundred scores for film, theatre and television, with clients ranging from The English National Ballet and The Royal Shakespeare Company to BBC, SKY & ITV. He is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning composer with over 15 years experience, and is consistently in high demand. His work includes Class an acclaimed 8-part Doctor Who spin-off for The BBC, ITV’s international hit show McDonald & Dodds and SKY’s The Amazing Mr Blunden. He composed the score to Russell T Davies’s drama Nolly, starring Helena Bonham Carter - for which he was nominated for a BAFTA, and won the prestigious Camille Award for Best TV Score. That collaboration led on to Men Up, a BBC film exec-produced by Russell, which aired in December 2023. After The Flood, a six-part thriller from Quay St, aired to great success in early 2024 on ITV1/Britbox. Doctor Jekyll, a new Hammer Horror film starring Eddie Izzard, was released worldwide in 2024, receiving a nomination for Best Feature Film Score, in the Music & Sound Awards 2024. Classically trained from an early age, Blair has a BA (Hons) in Music from Durham University and an MA in Composition for Film and Television from Bristol University. In 2012 he was nominated for both a Creative Scotland and BAFTA Scotland Award for Best New Talent in the Scottish arts. As a musical arranger he has worked on shows such as Doctor Who and David Attenborough's Life Story. Blair is a full voting member of BAFTA and frequently judges awards such as The Ivors and BIFAs. Both McDonald & Dodds and The Amazing Mr Blunden were double-nominated for Best Original TV Score and Best Opening Titles in the Music & Sound Awards. In 2023, Nolly was also nominated for a Music & Sound Award for Best Original TV Score and won Best Soundtrack at the World Entertainment Awards.