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Colin Matthews

Composer

Matthews invests much of his music with enormous energy and momentum …

— Stephen Pettitt, artspages.com

A new website!

15 February, 2016

Colin Matthews, photographed by Fiona GardenA new website, and a birthday that feels as though it should still be a long way off. I’ve reached an age that many of the composers that mean the most to me never approached – Berg, Britten, Debussy, Mahler, Ravel, Scriabin, not to mention nearly all the significant composers of the nineteenth century. But at least I can think gratefully of Elliott Carter, with the potential of not writing my first opera for another 20 years…

The website is a work in progress which will be gradually added to and updated – many more photographs to come, and I have to track down huge numbers of missing programme notes, and of course there will be some music before long – although in the interim there’s a fair amount available at NMC (don’t visit the site without buying something by somebody else!) or through YouTube (who I believe actually pay a token amount for the privilege).

And I hope to write a regular blog here, or preferably get others to contribute something, or point in the direction of things that interest me – a good starting point might be an interview done for Sinfini last year – or from 10 years ago, but not hopelessly outdated.

I remain luddite enough to have no presence on social media, so this is likely to remain the only interface that I’ll maintain – fingers crossed that it won’t be too intermittent!

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Group of performers posing for a photo together in front of the piano, with Colin Matthews and William Boyd

A Visit to Friends

27 March, 2022

CD cover of Beethoven for Three, Symphonies Nos.2 and 5 - image of Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma

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Line up of the panufnik composers with Colin Matthews. One composer is on a video screen, the rest are there in person.

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