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Colin Matthews

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Matthews generates a sustained span from the most subtly coloured cross-pulsations …

— Bayan Northcott, The Sunday Telegraph

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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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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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