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Interview Matthew Atticus Berger

September 30, 2026 · 25 min

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Matthew Atticus Berger is a film and television composer whose work spans drama, documentary, and unscripted television. A Berklee College of Music alumnus and jazz guitarist by training, Berger has built a prolific career scoring for the screen, with credits including 58 episodes of NBC's Chicago P.D. across four seasons (2019–2023), Bride or Die, Dead in the Water, Yuletide the Knot , and Broken Land. His scoring work extends into documentary television as well, with early credits on National Geographic series exploring the natural world, including Kingdom of the Oceans and Patrick and the whale. Most recently he wrote the score for the film April X.


In this new episode of Composer we dive with Matthew Atticus Berger into his latest score April X. How he created the music for this futuristic thriller. We also look back at the score he wrote for Patrick and the Whale.


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