Matthew Strachan

Matthew Strachan ( /ˈstrɔːn/ or /ˈstrækən/; born 11 December 1970) is an English composer and singer-songwriter.

His best known work is the music for the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? written with his father Keith. He has also contributed music to other television programmes such as The Detectives, Question Time, Winning Lines, jingles for several television commercials, and scores for stage musicals.

As a singer-songwriter Strachan is regarded as having a bittersweet style, often employing satire and characterization to make political points about unusual subjects such as social networking and the media. He has remarked of his style that he is "somewhere on a spectrum somewhere between Dr. John and Richard Stilgoe". As a composer of stage musicals he is noted for writing songs with a complete narrative arc.

Strachan has won twelve awards from ASCAP (American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers) and in 2012 received the ASCAP Hall of Fame Award in recognition of ten consecutive wins for the soundtrack of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

He is also the creator of the comic fictional 1970's composer Klaus Harmony.