Biography
Colin Matthews, OBE (born 13 February 1946) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Noted for his large-scale orchestral compositions, Matthews is also a prolific arranger of other composer's music, including works by Berlioz, Britten, Dowland, Mahler, Purcell and Schubert. Other arrangements include orchestrations of all Debussy's 24 Préludes, both books of Debussy's Images, and two movements—Oiseaux tristes and La vallée des cloches—from Ravel's Miroirs. Having received a doctorate from University of Sussex on the works of Mahler, from 1964–1975 Matthews worked with his brother David Matthews and musicologist Deryck Cooke on completing a performance version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Colin Matthews”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Works with bassoon
- Five Concertinos for Wind Quintet
Works with clarinet
- Five Concertinos for Wind Quintet
Works with flute
- Five Concertinos for Wind Quintet
Works with oboe
- Five Concertinos for Wind Quintet