Matthias Weber grew up in a musical family in Freiburg, Germany. He started getting serious about music at the young age of 5 and over the next years gradually mastered a variety of instruments, from alto recorder, to piano, guitar, bass, synthesizer, percussion, to church organ to name just a few. The multi-instrumentalist is known as a compelling improviser regardless of the musical genre.
After his classical training in Germany he studied composition and film scoring at the world renowned Berklee College of Music on a Fulbright Scholarship. He graduated “Summa Cum Laude” and moved to Los Angeles where he continued graduate studies in Music at the USC Thornton School of Music.
For the past two decades Matthias Weber has worked on a variety of projects for both Hollywood and European productions. Initially Weber worked on episodic television from “Baywatch,” to “The Sopranos,” to “The Shield,” and the pilot for “The Good Wife”. Some of his film credits as a programmer/arranger include work on “Pearl Harbor” (with Hans Zimmer), “League of Extraordinary Gentleman” (with Trevor Jones), and “Expedition Bismarck” (with James Cameron) for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Editing.
In 2005, Matthias Weber scored the medieval epic “Shadow Of The Sword” which led to a variety of award winning European features and TV movies. With Austrian director Andreas Prochaska he worked on projects such as the critically acclaimed TV Drama “Traces of Evil” and “A Day for a Miracle” which won an International Emmy for Best TV Movie/Mini Series.
Most recently Matthias Weber received a prestigious German Film Award – Best Score for his composition on “The Dark Valley”. This vengeance/action thriller set in 1875 Alpine Austria is another collaboration with star director Andreas Prochaska. The movie had its premiere at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival, won a total of eight German Film Awards and is the official Austrian Entry to the 2015 Academy Awards. In addition Matthias was nominated for the first annual German Film Music Award for his score on "The Dark Valley".
Matthias Weber is also an in demand lecturer on film scoring at UCLA Extension and he conducts occasional workshops on the topic in Europe and South America. He shares his time between Los Angeles and Europe.