Blair has composed over two hundred scores for film, theatre and television, with clients ranging from The English National Ballet and The Royal Shakespeare Company to BBC, SKY & ITV. He is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning composer with over 15 years experience, and is consistently in high demand. His work includes smash-hit BBC1 thriller The Guest, the immensely popular ITV show McDonald & Dodds, SKY’s The Amazing Mr Blunden and Class - a BBC 8-part Doctor Who spin-off. He composed the score to Russell T Davies’s drama Nolly, starring Helena Bonham Carter - for which he was nominated for a BAFTA, and won the prestigious Camille Award for Best TV Score. That collaboration led on to Men Up, a BBC film exec-produced by Russell, which aired in December 2023. After The Flood, a six-part thriller for ITV1/Britbox was one of the most watched thrillers of 2024. Doctor Jekyll, a new Hammer Horror film starring Eddie Izzard, was released worldwide the same year, receiving a nomination for Best Feature Film Score, in the Music & Sound Awards.
Classically trained from an early age, Blair has a BA (Hons) in Music from Durham University and an MA in Composition for Film and Television from Bristol University. In 2012 he was nominated for both a Creative Scotland and BAFTA Scotland Award for Best New Talent in the Scottish arts. As a musical arranger he has worked on shows such as Doctor Who and David Attenborough's Life Story. Blair is a full voting member of BAFTA and The Emmy Television Academy. He frequently judges awards such as The Ivors and BIFAs. Both McDonald & Dodds and The Amazing Mr Blunden were double-nominated for Best Original TV Score and Best Opening Titles in the Music & Sound Awards. In 2023, Nolly was also nominated for a Music & Sound Award for Best Original TV Score and won Best Soundtrack at the World Entertainment Awards.
Blair splits his time between London, Los Angeles and Edinburgh. For credits please see IMDB. For availability enquires please see the contact page.
