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Artist
Matthew Dewey
7+ albums
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about
Matthew Dewey is an Australian composer and music producer. He studied composition under Professor Douglas Knehans (DMA Yale) and Constantine Koukias at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music where in he received the Don Kay Scholarship for Music Composition. He is pro-active in new music initiatives, being a founding member of IHOS Music Theatre Laboratory and the Mediocritist Ensemble, Artistic Director of Daylight Robbery Theatricals, and as founder and Director of both the Tasmanian New Music Ensemble and the Tasmanian Composers Collective (funded by the Foundation for Young Australians), which aims to provide marketing, performance, recording and broadcast support and opportunities to Tasmanian composers. Matthew’s compositions have been commissioned and performed by groups and companies including: The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Contemporanes ensamble de guitarras de Monterrey (Mexico), IHOS Music Theatre laboratory, the Seymour Group (Sydney), The New York Miniaturist Ensemble (USA) the Sydney Children’s Choir, Hobart Chamber Orchestra, Hutchins String Quartet, Backgammon Baroque, Terrapin Puppet Theatre and by musicians including Jean Louis Forestier (Conductor), Edwin Paling (Violinist and Conductor) William Lane (Violist and Artistic Director of ¿grenzenlos?, Joshua Rubin (Clarinetist – International Contemporary Music Ensemble), Harry Spaarnay (Bass Clarinet), Brooke Green (Viola da Gamba), Michael Kieren Harvey (Pianist), Sarah Jones (Soprano), Michael Lampard
