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 House of Christmas comes from a series of four carols, including three settings of poems by G.K. Chesterton. Duration: 3mins 40s. G.K.C. was a… great traveller and on his wanderings a friend to everyone he met. In his own house, he was famed for his warmth and hospitality. It is not surprising, then that The Inn was for him almost a spiritual symbol. In all of my settings of his poems I have tried to convey the sense of a yearning journey of life coupled with the joy of finding something thought lost forever: we travel to a place that, if we are truthful, we never really left. The idea at the centre of The House of Christmas that I dramatise is Chesterton’s: that joy is a ‘gigantic secret’ which resides at the end of all our travelling. 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=4WdfNbrl9YA&t=11s There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the square stones of Rome. For men are homesick in their homes, And strangers under the sun, And they lay on their heads in a foreign land Whenever the day is done. Here we have battle and blazing eyes, And chance and honour and high surprise, But our homes are under miraculous skies Where the yule tale was begun. This world is wild as an old wives’ tale, And strange the plain things are, The earth is enough and the air is enough For our wonder and our war; But our rest is as far as the fire-drake swings And our peace is put in impossible things Where clashed and thundered unthinkable wings Round an incredible star. Part of our series: “The House of Christmas”.