Michael Matthews
Works by Michael Matthews
Biography
Michael Matthews studied composition with Larry Austin, Ben Glovinsky and Aurelio de la Vega before completing his Ph.D. in composition at North Texas State University in 1985. In 2012 Matthews retired from twenty-seven years of full-time teaching at the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music, University of Manitoba; he is now Professor Emeritus there. Matthews is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and currently lives and works in Berlin. He has been the recipient of numerous commissions and awards, including a Rockefeller Foundation residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy, the International Computer Music Prize, a scholarship to the Composition and Computer Music Seminar of the Bartók Festival in Szombathely, Hungary a Major Arts Grant in music from the Manitoba Arts Council. Matthews is a conductor and a founder and artistic director of the GroundSwell new music series. From 2002-2004 he was Composer-in-Residence with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra.
About the music
My music is much influenced by expressionism and as well by the works of Webern, Crumb, Lutoslawski, Pettersson, Kurtag.
