As a composer he has written for advertising (Disneyland Paris, Currys/PC World, Lidl, Warburtons, World Gold Council), Samuel has scored music for spectacular live shows across Europe, and has provided additional music on the feature films Vaincre ou Mourir and Absolutely Anything. He scored Ken Loach’s political broadcast #WeDemand and has written music for radio documentary and drama as well as creating custom title music and score for TV.

As orchestrator and music editor Samuel has worked on numerous films, TV productions, and live shows. Credits include Sorry We Missed You I, Daniel Blake, Johnny English Strikes Again, Cold Pursuit, The Lady in the Van, Dream Horse, Heartstopper, Blue Planet in Concert/Planet Earth in Concert/Frozen Planet in Concert, & the 2023 TNT Sports rebrand. Alongside commercial releases, Samuel has arranged music for the prominent rapper STRESS with the 21st Century Orchestra, and Alfie Boe with the Boston Pops.

Most recently Samuel has created new arrangements for an album titled Edith Piaf Symphonique. Cutting edge technology was used to isolate Edith’s original voice, to which new orchestral arrangements were recorded. He is currently working on a studio album.

Samuel was awarded Best Contemporary Classical Production Music Track 2022 for ‘Force of Genius’. In 2024 he was nominated for a Music and Sound Award 2024 and two Production Music Awards. Samuel is an inaugural member of the Young Leaders Programme 2024, setup between the Italian and UK Embassies to forge closer ties and foster cultural exchange.

The words of Balalulow come from a longer 16th Century Scottish carol. Samuel Pegg writes: “I have tried, through the gentle intensity of the music,… to evoke its remarkable words, which locate the meaning of the Nativity not in history or religion but in a simple kindness of heart where a room is always ready”. A lullaby, it should be sung with a gentle, rocking lilt and softly, as if sending the young child to sleep. A four track EP of new christmas carols is now released on Air Edel Records. It features SATB settings of three texts by GK Chesterton (The House of Christmas, The Wise Men, A Child of the Snows) and a new setting of the 16th Century Scottish carol Balulalow. The carols, each receiving their first public performances during December 2016 are produced and mixed by Abbey Road engineer Jonathan Allen and performed by a virtuoso quartet of Eloise Irving, Amy Lyddon, Benedict Hymas and Simon Whiteley, accompanied by pianist Mark Dowd. The EP is available across a number of digital platforms including iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J3lyW_W63w&t=9s O my deir hert, young Jesus sweit, Prepare thy craydil in my spreit, And I sall rocke thee in my hert, And never mair from thee depart. But I sall pryse thee evermoir, With sang-es sweit unto thy gloir: The knees of my hert sall I bow And sing that richt balulalow. Part of our series: “The House of Christmas”.