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First name: Colin
Last name: Matthews
Dates: 1946
Category: Doublebass
Nationality: British
Opus name: 'Tryptich' for bass, cello, viola, violin and piano. (1984)
Publisher: Faber
Peculiarities: http://www.fabermusic.com/repertoire/triptych-1203
Information: Composer website: https://colinmatthews.net/ Matthews, Colin (b. February 13, 1946, London). British composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a producer and scholar. Mr. Matthews initially studied classics at the University of Nottingham, where he earned his BA in 1966, but then studied composition there with Nicholas Maw and Arnold Whittall and received his MPhil in 1970. He earned his doctorate at the University of Sussex for his work on Gustav Mahler in 1978. He later received an honorary doctorate from the University of Nottingham in 1998. His honors include the Ian Whyte Award from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (1975, for Fourth Sonata) and the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Large-Scale Composition (1997, for Renewal). Recent commissions include ones from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, the London Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. As a producer, he founded the label for contemporary music NMC Recordings in London in 1988 and has served as its executive producer since 1988. He has produced recordings for BMG/RCA, Bridge, Collins Classics, Conifer, Continuum, Deutsche Grammophon, Metronome, Nonesuch, and Virgin Classics. As a scholar, he and his brother David Matthews collaborated with Deryck Cooke on the revised performing version of the Symphonie Nr. 10 by Gustav Mahler from 1964–74. He wrote the monograph Mahler at Work: Aspects of the Creative Process (1989) and the article The Tenth Symphony for The Mahler Companion (1999, edited by Donald Mitchell and A. Nicholson, Oxford University Press). Mr. Matthews is also active in other positions. He worked with Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh at the Aldeburgh Festival from 1971–76 and with Imogen Holst there from 1972–84, served as a council member of the Aldeburgh Foundation from 1983–94 and continues to serve as co-director with Oliver Knussen of the Contemporary Composition and Performance Course at the Aldeburgh Festival. In addition, he is an administrator of the Holst Foundation, chairman of the Britten Estate, trustee of the Britten-Pears Foundation, and a long-time member of the council of the Society for the Promotion of New Music. He served as director of the Performing Right Society from 1992–95 and as associate composer to the London Symphony Orchestra from 1992–99 and has served as composer-in-association to the Hallé Orchestra since 2001. He taught at the University of Sussex in 1972–73 and 1976–77. He was later a visiting composer and teacher at Tanglewood in 1991 and is currently the Prince Consort Professor of Music at the Royal College of Music, a governor of the Royal Northern College of Music and the Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Composition at the University of Manchester. Faber Music publishes his works.