Matt Dahan
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Matt Dahan's music career started with an abandoned upright piano and a Talkboy tape recorder in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. Today, his music has been performed or synced onto nearly every medium, from scoring stages in Los Angeles, to Off-Broadway theaters in New York City, from the Academy Awards shortlist to the top of the Billboard Cast Albums chart.
The passion to write for all media led Matt to Berklee College of Music, where he honed his craft alongside the best musicians in the world. His ability to compose for any genre opened the door to work in film scoring, theatre writing, and music directing. The movie-musical How Sweet It Is (2013), for which Matt contributed both songs and score, proved to be a watershed moment. He would go on to co-write the song 'Beyond the Shore', featured in the Oscar winning film CODA (2021), which garnered a Hollywood Music in Media award for Best song (Independent Film) and a place on the 94th Academy Awards shortlist.
Matt became music director for the cross-platform theater company Team Starkid in 2018. Since joining, he has produced for records three Billboard Top-Ten Cast Albums, performed on London's West End, and won a BroadwayWorld regional award for Best Music Director.
The passion to write for all media led Matt to Berklee College of Music, where he honed his craft alongside the best musicians in the world. His ability to compose for any genre opened the door to work in film scoring, theatre writing, and music directing. The movie-musical How Sweet It Is (2013), for which Matt contributed both songs and score, proved to be a watershed moment. He would go on to co-write the song 'Beyond the Shore', featured in the Oscar winning film CODA (2021), which garnered a Hollywood Music in Media award for Best song (Independent Film) and a place on the 94th Academy Awards shortlist.
Matt became music director for the cross-platform theater company Team Starkid in 2018. Since joining, he has produced for records three Billboard Top-Ten Cast Albums, performed on London's West End, and won a BroadwayWorld regional award for Best Music Director.
