Conductor & Musician
Matthew Andrews BMus (Hons) is a graduate of London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he chaired the Contemporary Music Society and studied composition
(Dr Robert Saxton), piano (Susan Alexander Max) and conducting technique (Alan Hazeldine).
He subsequently returned to the Guildhall as a guest teacher of orchestral conducting technique (1998-99).
Matt has performed throughout Europe and Scandinavia, working most frequently as a trainer of young orchestras, directing more than twenty residential courses and overseas concert tours.
In 1998 he conducted the Northern Sinfonia after being short-listed for Young Conductor in Association, and stood in for Christopher Adey to direct the Hungarian tour of the Essex Youth Orchestra.
In 2000 Matt assisted composer Geoffrey Burgon recording the Merciless Beauty CD with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and went on to work with Burgon and the Philharmonia Orchestra on the BAFTA Award-winning soundtrack of Longitude for Channel 4.
Matt has performed with the Amadeus Orchestra as Assistant Conductor (1999), as Artistic Director at the North London Chorus (2000-02), Assistant Director of the Colne Valley Youth Orchestras (2004-06), and as guest conductor with the Colne Philharmonic Orchestra, Camden Chamber Orchestra, Essex Concert Band and with Jane Manning and the principals of Opera Lab.
In July 2008 Matt took up the post of Conductor of the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra.