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(composer website:http://www.colinmatthews.net/testsite/triptych.html)
COLIN MATTHEWS was born in London in 1946. He studied at the Universities of Nottingham and Sussex, and subsequently worked as assistant to Benjamin Britten, and with Imogen Holst. He collaborated with Deryck Cooke for many years on the performing version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony. Since the early 1970s his music has ranged from solo piano music through three string quartets and many ensemble and orchestral works. From 1992-9 he was Associate Composer with the London Symphony Orchestra, writing amongst other works a Cello Concerto for Rostropovich. In 1997 his choral/orchestral Renewal, commissioned for the 50th anniversary of BBC Radio 3, was given a Royal Philharmonic Society Award. Recent works include Reflected Images for the San Francisco SO, Berceuse for Dresden for the New York Philharmonic and Turning Point for the Concertgebouw Orchestra. He is Composer-in- Association with the Hallé, for whom he completed his orchestrations of Debussy's 24 Preludes in 2007. His violin concerto for Leila Josefowicz and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra was premiered in October 2009, with further performances worldwide. Current commissions include works for the London Sinfonietta, City of London Sinfonia, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Elias Quartet. He is Founder and Executive Producer of NMC Recordings, and Executive Administrator of the Holst Foundation. He has been co-director with Oliver Knussen of the Aldeburgh Composition Course since 1992. He holds honorary posts with several universities and is Prince Consort Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music. |