Father September is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and music producer from London. Known for his immersive, discipline-blending music, inspired by Avant-pop, contemporary classical art-music, late Romanticism, minimalism, and electronic music production. He has adopted an approach that has as much in common with electronic musicians as traditional composers and orchestrators.

His sonic palette incorporates classical instrumentation, using real-world instruments, recorded in nuanced and processed ways to capture the minute details of the timbre and performance. His work often uses ambiguous harmony and fluid tempo, allowing his scores to feel as though they breathe in and out of sublimity and darkness, switching the emotional undercurrent in a moment.

Father September reached a pivotal moment as a composer with his experimental piece Workshop Session No. 1, written and recorded under a self-imposed limitation: a violin, a cello, a double bass, and a banjo, performed by himself, and with no creative audio processing. After hearing the piece in 2023, director Yassa Khan commissioned him to adapt and expand it for his biopic short film, PINK (2025).

He has worked with Hamed Sinno on Poems of Consumption—Sinno’s first solo project after leading Mashrou' Leila—writing eight string-quartet arrangements that were presented as a central feature on the Barbican’s main stage.

In 2025, working with the same string quartet and after taking residence in a transformed church crypt, Father September composed the score for the Lebanese animation 'Jeem 1983', incorporating the sounds of a pipe organ, harmonium, toy piano, and a circa-1975 electric organ.

A recurring thread in his work is human imperfection: the way people contradict themselves, the way our emotions rarely match the surface of an audience's observation. Father September will often score the unexpected emotion or intention behind a scene, illuminating its hidden or deeper meaning.