Great Success in Madrid with the outstanding players of the Orquesta Clasica Santa Cecilia has led to an immediate re-invitation for 2012
Matthew will head back down under to take the Melbourne Symphony on the road to Ballarat, Colac and Frankston March 2012
Matthew is thrilled to be covering for Maestro Barry Wordsworth for the Royal Ballet's run of The Dream / Song of the Earth early 2012
Get the champagne chilled and ready. Matthew will again team up with 'Britain's leading operatic duo', Claire Rutter and Stephen Gadd, in a New Year's Eve gala concert with the Southern Sinfonia in Winchester's Guildhall. Don't miss out. Tickets will go on sale September 12 at
Matthew will work again with the composer Stephen McNeff and for the first time with the opera company Tete a Tete to workshop Stephen's new opera on Marie Curie!
Alongside Matthew's regular guest lecturing in post-graduate conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music, Matthew has devised a unique conducting course that is run by the South West Music School. The Course is designed to challenge exceptional students to think differently about the way they create music, introducing the student to a variety of musical disciplines that would not necessarily come with studying an instrument alone, helping to broaden musical knowledge and musical confidence, in turn encouraging individuality and leadership. Based on monthly classes meeting in Wiltshire, Cornwall and Devon the course is concluded with a residential in which the participants will conduct an orchestra made up of students and members of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Students will not only be taught the physical craft of conducting, but also focus on the vast and varied disciplines necessary for leading an ensemble, such as score reading, instrumentation, orchestration, transposition, advanced harmony, aural awareness and repertoire knowledge. If you are from the South-West and are interested in participating in this programme please contact Matthew directly at this website or contact Lisa Tregail at the South West Music School on 01392 460770.
