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Colin Matthews

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Matthews, like Britten, has the gift of creating crisply memorable material …

— Edward Greenfield, The Guardian

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An ensemble of 6 (socially distanced) musicans plus conductor performing together; this is a screenshot on zoom and you can see Colin Matthews dialling in top left.

Recording the Panufnik composers

30 January, 2021

The group of composers who joined the LSO’s Panufnik Scheme last February (see my post of March 6) have had a pretty miserable year, but…
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Nottingham University Challenge team - Roy, Hopkins, Wood, Matthews

Christmas University Challenge

19 December, 2020

Not what I was expecting to find myself doing in this strangest of years! Since my last post here I’ve been working steadily away, but…
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Gurrelieder poster for first perfomance in 1913

Gurrelieder

7 April, 2020

I’m not finding it easy to listen to music at the moment, or more accurately, not finding the right music to listen to. For something…
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Group pic of composers David Alberman (LSO chair and principal 2nd violin), Christian Mason (composition support) and from left to right Christian Drew, Stef Conner, Chris McCormack, Camilla Panufnik, Patrick Jones, Emma-Kate Matthews, CM, and Alex Paxton.

2020 Panufnik Composers

6 March, 2020

Another year and another group of composers have joined the LSO’s Panufnik Scheme. The six composers came together at LSO St Luke’s recently – they…
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Film ad for my life so far - the three stars of the film (2 ladies one man) with the film title underneath

Me and the Weinsteins

26 February, 2020

Harvey Weinstein is of course all over the news, but I’m glad to say that I had no dealings with either Harvey or Bob Weinstein…
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27 April, 2021 - Seascapes (World Premiere)
Nash Ensemble
Wigmore Hall, London

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