Colin Matthews

Studied music at the Universities of Nottingham and Sussex with Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst * Collaborated with Deryck Cooke on the performing version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony * Music has been played widely both in the UK and worldwide, with recordings on Unicorn, Collins Classics and Deutsche Grammophon * Associate Composer with the London Symphony Orchestra (1992-99), writing a Cello Concerto for Rostropovich, among other works * Choral/orchestral work Renewal (1997) was given the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for large-scale composition * Ballet score Hidden Variables opened the Royal Ballet's season in December 1999, and the large-scale ensemble piece Continuum was toured by the BCMG and Sir Simon Rattle * Currently Composer-in-Association with the Hallé Orchestra and recently completed orchestrations of Debussy’s Preludes * Orchestral work Reflected Images was premiered by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas * Cello concerto for Jan Vogler and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra performed at the reopening of the Dresden Frauenkirche in November 2005

"The Isambard Kingdom Brunel of contemporary music: master of great time machines, steamy with energy derived from pulse and from massive, surging harmony, and openly displaying their structural engineering, all finished with a craftsman's care." -- Paul Griffiths
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