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Colin Matthews

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Aerial photo of Snape Maltings

Britten-Pears Young Artists

2 November, 2022

This November the Aldeburgh Composition and Performance Course at Snape returns after a gap of more than 3 years. It’s difficult to believe that it’s…
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Turner's painting - The burning of the house of lords and the commons. The sky is ablaze with fire, there is a wide view of the review and an arched bridge in the distance.

Cleveland Pictures at Snape

1 July, 2022

Cleveland Pictures is by far the most significant of Olly Knussen’s unfinished works, and if it had reached completion would have been his largest scale…
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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

At the beginning of March I was given a very generous week in the Peter Pears Recital Room at Snape Maltings to work with a…
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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

Arranging Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony for piano trio is not something I ever expected to do, but when Emmanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma ask…
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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.

Latest Panufnik Composers

15 February, 2022

It’s been such a difficult time for the Panufnik Scheme over the past two years, with the 2019 group of composers having to wait a…
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Upcoming Performances

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30 October, 2025 - Pluto the Renewer
Odense Symfoniorkester, Alpesh Chauhan (Conductor)
Carl Nielsen Salen, Odense Concert Hall, Denmark

31 October, 2025 - Pluto the Renewer
Odense Symfoniorkester, Alpesh Chauhan (Conductor)
Carl Nielsen Salen, Odense Concert Hall, Denmark

8 February, 2026 - Oboe Concerto (World Premiere)
London Symphony Orchestra, Olivier Stankiewicz (Oboe), Elim Chan (Conductor)
Barbican Hall, London

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