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Artist
Matthew Schellhorn
12+ albums
about
Selected as a “Talent to Watch” for 2007 by BBC Music Magazine, and described as “a rising star” (BBC Radio 3) and “one of Britain’s most exciting young pianists” (Classic FM), Matthew Schellhorn has a growing international career, which in recent seasons has seen recitals in Europe, Ireland and North America. Born in Yorkshire in 1977, Matthew Schellhorn studied at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester and the University of Cambridge with David Hartigan, Maria Curcio, Ryszard Bakst and Peter Hill, and later in Paris with Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen. Matthew Schellhorn has been guest soloist at several international festivals, including the Three Choirs Festival, the Windsor Festival, the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts, Sounds New in Canterbury, the Kew Music Festival, and the Britten Sinfonia–BBC Radio 3 “Tippett 2005” festival in Cambridge. He has given performances in many major venues throughout the UK, including Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room (Southbank Centre) and St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham, the Djanogly Recital Hall in Nottingham, the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall in York, the Huntingdon Hall in Worcester, West Road Concert Hall and the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building in Oxford, and the De Montfort Hall in Leicester. He has performed live numerous times on BBC Radio 3, and in 2005 he was featured on Classic FM’s The Guest List. Recent concerto performances have included appearances wi
