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Matthews was born in London in 1946; his older brother is the composer David Matthews. He read classics at the University of Nottingham, and then studied composition there with Arnold Whittall and Nicholas Maw. In the 1970s he taught at the University of Sussex, where he obtained a doctorate for his work on Mahler, an offshoot of his long collaboration with Deryck Cooke on the performing version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony. During this period he also worked at Aldeburgh with Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... David Matthews (born March 9, 1943 is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber music, vocal and piano works. ... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ... The University of Nottingham is a leading research and teaching university in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. ... Musical composition is: an original piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A musical composition A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance... Nicholas Maw (born 1935) is a British composer. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The University of Sussex is an English campus university located near the East Sussex village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove. ... This article cites its sources but does not provide page references. ... Deryck Cooke (September 14, 1919 - October 27, 1975) was a British musicologist who was born in Leicester. ... The Symphony No. ... Map sources for Aldeburgh at grid reference TM4656 Aldeburgh is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England; it is located on the Alde river at 52° North, 1° East 1. ... Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. ... Imogen Holst (April 12, 1907-March 9, 1984) was a British composer and conductor, and the only child of composer Gustav Holst. ...

In 1975 his orchestral Fourth Sonata won the Scottish National Orchestra's Ian Whyte Award. Subsequent orchestral works include the widely performed Night Music (1976), Sonata No. 5: Landscape (1977-81), and a First Cello Concerto, commissioned by the BBC for the 1984 Proms: these last two have been recorded by Unicorn-Kanchana. In 1989 Cortège was given its first performance by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House under Bernard Haitink, and Quatrain by the London Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas. This was the first of a series of LSO commissions, followed by Machines and Dreams for their 1991 Childhood Festival, Memorial in 1993 with Mstislav Rostropovich as conductor, and a Second Cello Concerto for Rostropovich in 1996. Matthews was Associate Composer with the LSO from 1992 until 1999. The orchestral version of Hidden Variables was a joint commission for the LSO and the New World Symphony Orchestra, who gave the American première in Miami under Michael Tilson Thomas in 1992; in the same year the Cleveland Orchestra gave the American première of Machines and Dreams. Collins Classics released a CD of Matthews' LSO commissions in 1996 to celebrate his 50th birthday. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... The Royal Scottish National Orchestra is Scotlands national symphony orchestra. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Promenade concert in the Royal Albert Hall, 2004. ... Unicorn-Kanchana was an independent record label. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (born March 4, Dutch conductor. ... It has been suggested that London (orchestra) be merged into this article or section. ... Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944), nicknamed MTT, is an American conductor, pianist and composer. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Mstislav Rostropovich Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич) (born March 27, 1927), affectionately known as Slava, is Russian and a naturalized American cellist and conductor, considered to be one of the greatest cellists ever. ... A conductor conducting a band at a ceremony A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ... The New World Symphony is the Americas only full-time orchestral academy dedicated to preparing gifted graduates from distinguished music conservatories for successful careers in symphony orchestras and ensembles. ... This article is about the city in Florida. ... The Cleveland Orchestra is one of the major symphony orchestras in the United States. ...

The BBC commission Broken Symmetry was first performed by its dedicatees, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen, in March 1992, and repeated at the 1992 Proms. It was recorded in 1994, together with the Fourth Sonata and Suns Dance, by Deutsche Grammophon (a Grammy Award nomination); and it forms the third part of the huge choral/orchestral Renewal, commissioned by the BBC for the 50th anniversary of Radio 3 in September 1996. Renewal received the 1997 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for large-scale composition. The Dutch première of Cortège was given in December 1998 by the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly. The ballet score Hidden Variables, incorporating a new orchestral work, Unfolded Order, was commissioned by the Royal Ballet for the reopening of the Royal Opera House in December 1999. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in Britain. ... Oliver Knussen (born June 12, 1952) is a British composer and conductor. ... Logo Deutsche Grammophon is a German record label. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... The Royal Philharmonic Society is a British music society, formed in 1813. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest in Dutch) is the best known and most respected orchestra in the Netherlands, and is generally considered to be among the worlds finest. ... Riccardo Chailly (born February 20, 1953) is an Italian conductor. ... Act 4 of Swan Lake: choreography by Petipa and Nureyev, music by Tchaikovsky. ... Royal Ballet may refer to: Royal Ballet, London Birmingham Royal Ballet Royal Winnipeg Ballet Royal Danish Ballet There is also an article about the Royal Ballet School in London, England. ... The Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House is a performing arts venue in London. ...

Colin Matthews' chamber music includes three string quartets, two oboe quartets, a Divertimento for double string quartet (1982), and a substantial body of piano music. Between 1985 and 1994 he completed six major works for ensemble: Suns Dance for the London Sinfonietta (1985, reworked for the Royal Ballet as Pursuit), Two Part Invention (l987), The Great Journey (1981-88) — recently re-released on NMC — Contraflow, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta for the 1992 Huddersfield Festival, and two commissions for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Hidden Variables (1989) and ...through the glass (1994), the latter given its first performance under Simon Rattle, who also conducted it in 1998 at the Proms and in Salzburg. Matthews' music was featured at the Almeida Festival in 1988, at the Bath Festival in 1990, at Tanglewood in 1988, and in 1991, when he was visiting composer and teacher, at the 1998 Suntory Summer Festival in Tokyo, at the 2003 Avanti! Festival in Finland, and the 2004 Berlin Festival. The resident string quartet of the Library of Congress in 1963 A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—usually two violins, a viola and cello—or a piece written to be performed by such a group. ... Divertimento is a music genre, with most of its examples stemming from the 18th century. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The London Sinfonietta is a British chamber orchestra based in London. ... NMC may refer to: Northwestern Michigan College Nishtar Medical College ,Multan Pakistan Categories: Disambiguation ... Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, commonly known as BCMG, is a chamber orchestra based in Birmingham, England specialising in the performance of new and contemporary music. ... Simon Rattle recording Porgy and Bess with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road in 1988 Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE OL (born January 19, 1955) is an English conductor. ... Flag of Salzburg Salzburg (population 145,000 in 2005) is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 520,000 in 2003). ... The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a music festival held at the Bath and Wells Showground on the 27-28th June 1970. ... Tanglewood is the name of an estate and music venue in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. ... Tokyo , literally Eastern capital)   is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, the home of the Japanese Imperial Family, and the de facto[1] capital of Japan. ...

The year 2000 saw four major premières: Two Tributes for the London Sinfonietta; Pluto, an addition to Holst's Planets, for the Hallé Orchestra and Kent Nagano, already widely performed; Aftertones, for the Huddersfield Choral Society; and Continuum, a large-scale work for soprano and ensemble commissioned by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group for Cynthia Clarey and Simon Rattle, with performances in London, Cologne, Brussels, Amsterdam, Vienna and Birmingham. In the spring of 2001 the Philharmonia orchestra gave the first performance of Matthews' Horn Concerto, with Richard Watkins and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Also in 2001 he was commissioned to write a Fanfare to open the BBC Proms. Reflected Images, for Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, received its première in October 2003. This article is about the year 2000. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Hallé Orchestra is one of Britains longest established orchestras, and is based in Manchester. ... Kent Nagano is the current music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. ... Huddersfield Choral Society is an internationally famous choir based in the town of Huddersfield in the English county of West Yorkshire. ... Look up soprano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Esa-Pekka Salonen (born June 30, 1958 in Helsinki) is a prominent Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. ... The San Francisco Symphony is a major orchestra based in San Francisco, California. ...

Colin Matthews was appointed Associate Composer with the Hallé Orchestra from October 2001, and he is writing a number of works for them, as well as a project involving the orchestration of all 24 of Debussy's Preludes. Future commissions include works for the Concertgebouw, New York Philharmonic and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras. He is active as administrator of the Holst Foundation, Chairman of the Britten Estate, and trustee of the Britten-Pears Foundation. He was a Council Member of the Aldeburgh Foundation from 1983 to 1994, and retains close links with the Aldeburgh Festival and the Britten-Pears School, particularly as co-director with Oliver Knussen of the Contemporary Composition and Performance Course. He was a member of the Council of the Society for the Promotion of New Music for over 20 years, and a director of the Performing Right Society from 1992 to 1995. He is founder and Executive Producer of NMC Recordings, and has also produced recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Virgin, Conifer, Collins, Bridge, BMG, Continuum, Metronome and Elektra Nonesuch (Górecki's Third Symphony, for which he received a Grammy nomination). Claude Debussy Claude Achille Debussy (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918), composer of impressionistic classical music. ... The Aldeburgh Festival is an English festival, largely revolving around classical music. ... Oliver Knussen (born June 12, 1952) is a British composer and conductor. ... The PRS (short for Performing Right Society) is the collecting society for UK songwriters, composers and music publishers. ... In Roman times, Vestal Virgins were strictly celibate or they were punished by death. ... The name Collins may refer to: // Companies The Collins publishing company, now part of HarperCollins The Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, now part of Rockwell-Collins Places Fort Collins, Colorado Collins, Wisconsin People See Collins (surname) Film Michael Collins was a movie about Irish revolutionary Michael Collins This... Henryk MikoÅ‚aj Górecki (born December 6, 1933) is a Polish composer of classical music. ...

In 1998 Colin Matthews was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Nottingham. He is currently Prince Consort Professor of Music at the Royal College of Music, a Governor of the Royal Northern College of Music, and Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Composition at the University of Manchester. // The Royal College of Music from Prince Consort Road, London The Royal College of Music is a prestigious music school located in Kensington, London. ... Royal Northern College of Music The Royal Northern College of Music or RNCM is a conservatoire in Manchester, England. ... The University of Manchester is a large university located in Manchester, England. ...