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).

Matt has a rapidly growing reputation as an orchestral conductor and trainer.  His 2010 debut with the Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra conducting Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony led to his immediate appointment as Principal Conductor, a post he also holds with both the Sudbury and Southend Symphony Orchestras.  

Recent guest performances were given with West Forest Sinfonia (including Tippett’s Fantasia Concertante) and at the Manchester Jazz Festival premiering Neil Yates’s Surroundings.  

Matt has also conducted the Northern Sinfonia, Amadeus Orchestra, North London Chorus (Artistic Director 2000-02), Camden Chamber Orchestra, Opera Lab, Colne Philharmonic Orchestra, Essex Youth Orchestra and returned to the Guildhall as a guest teacher of orchestral conducting technique.

Matt was assistant to composer Geoffrey Burgon, recording Merciless Beauty with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the BAFTA award-winning soundtrack of Longitude with the Philharmonia Orchestra.