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Colin Matthews

Composer

Matthews can handle grandeur and intimacy with equal skill.

— Fiona Maddocks, The Observer

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…and who knows, you can do it (Barrie Gavin documentary)

  • Recorded: 2016
  • Performers: various;

String Quartet No.5

  • Recorded: 2015
  • Performers: Apollon Musagète Quartet;

No Man’s Land

  • Recorded: 2014
  • Performers: The Hallé; Nicholas Collon (conductor)

The Debussy Preludes – La fille aux cheveux de lin

  • Recorded: 2014
  • Performers: The Hallé; Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

Turning Point

  • Recorded: 2013
  • Performers: BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Thomas Søndergård (conductor)

Violin Concerto

  • Recorded: 2009
  • Performers: BBC Symphony Orchestra; Leila Josefowicz; Oliver Knussen (conductor)

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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

Beethoven for Three

1 March, 2022

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

Latest Panufnik Composers

15 February, 2022

Upcoming Performances

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24 June, 2022 - Three Fragments

Aldeburgh Festival Britten Studio, Snape Maltings (Aldeburgh Festival)

24 June, 2022 - O (World Premiere)
Claire Booth (soprano), Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), Anssi Karttunen (cello), Huw Watkins (piano)
Aldeburgh Festival Britten Studio, Snape Maltings (Aldeburgh Festival)

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