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Colin Matthews

Composer

Matthews’ statement has a power and elegance that are quite his own.

— Paul Driver, The Sunday Times

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Panufnik composers 2023

12 March, 2023

Another year, and the latest group of composers for the LSO’s Panufnik Scheme, bringing the total we’ve worked with since 2005 up to 105. Selected…
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Francois-Xavier Roth conducting

Mosaics

18 February, 2023

A rare treat – the LSO and François-Xavier Roth gave me an hour of rehearsal time to run through the piece whose first performance they…
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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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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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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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14 May, 2026 - Berceuse and Sarabande
Folkestone New Music
The Green Room at the Grand, Folkestone

22 May, 2026 - Seascapes
Claire Booth (Soprano), Ensemble 360
Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield

26 July, 2026 - Fantazia 13
The Happenstancers
Carlton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, Ottawa, Ottawa Chamberfest

5 August, 2026 - La Vallée des Cloches (Ravel/Matthews)
Hallé Orchestra, Kahchun Wong (Conductor)
Royal Albert Hall, London

7 March, 2027 - Paraphrases
Leila Josefowicz (violin), John Novacek (piano)
Wigmore Hall, London

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