Recent Years
Debut as concert pianist in 1998 at the Dorking Halls performing Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Slater has worked on several films, documentaries, plays, and concert commissions over the last several years since 1998. Slater worked briefly with David Arnold on The Musketeer (2001). In 2007 Slater composed music for the Philips Aurea website. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios with members of the London Symphony Orchestra.
In 2005 Slater competed in the Gary Garritan Competition. He was a runner up.
In 2008 Slater scored the music for 400 Years of the Telescope, a PBS special for the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, with the London Symphony Orchestra. This also involved a related Fulldome Video project, Two Small Pieces of Glass, which became the most played planetarium full dome film shown in 2009. This marked the start of several projects for the Fulldome world, which includes nearly 1000 theaters around the world. Notably in 2010, Mark scored Natural Selection, the most recent award winning fulldome film from Mirage 3D, produced by Robin Sip. This score was recorded in Budapest with the Budapest Film Orchestra and won an award for Best Audio at the Imiloa Full Dome Film Festival in Hawaii.
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