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Colin Matthews

Composer

Matthews can handle grandeur and intimacy with equal skill.

— Fiona Maddocks, The Observer

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A Visit to Friends – first performance!

30 June, 2025

5½ years after work began on the opera it has finally happened. Two performances at Aldeburgh on June 13 and 14 with a superb cast,…
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Red Note Festival in Illinois

3 April, 2025

I’ve recently returned from a week as guest composer at the Illinois State University Red Note Festival, organised by the indefatigable Carl Schimmel and Alex…
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Royal Philharmonic Society Gamechanger Award

12 March, 2025

At the Birmingham Conservatoire on March 7 where NMC were given the Gamechanger Award, presented by the Board and Council of the RPS to ‘an…
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Panufnik 2025

23 February, 2025

Another year, another group of Panufnik composers, bringing the total who have taken part since 2005 to the remarkable number of 117. They will work…
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A Visit to Friends Part 2

16 November, 2024

We have just had two days of singing through the whole opera with nearly all of the cast, the first time this has been possible…
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20 September, 2026 - String Quartet No.6
Gildas Quartet
Brighton Dome

20 October, 2026 - Pluto the Renewer
Orchestre symphonique et chœurs d'ARTS², Nicolas Krüger (Conductor)
La Collégiale Sainte-Waudru de Mons, Belgium

22 October, 2026 - Pluto the Renewer
Orchestre symphonique et chœurs d’ARTS², Nicolas Krüger (Conductor)
Palais des Beaux Arts de Charleroi, Belgium

22 October, 2026 - Three Songs without Words (Ravel/Matthews)
Hallé Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (Conductor)
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

23 October, 2026 - Three Songs without Words (Ravel/Matthews)
Hallé Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (Conductor)
Sheffield City Hall

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