MATTHEW HOLMES MUSIC

Matthew Holmes (b. 1997) is a British composer from Oxford. He is currently pursuing a PhD on the late music of Robert Simpson at the RNCM with supervision from Dr. Annika Forkert and Prof. Nicholas Reyland. He holds a MMus in Composition and Musicology from the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM, 2021) where he studied composition with Prof. Adam Gorb, Gary Carpenter and Paul Patterson and musicology with Simon Clarke; and a BMus (Hons) degree in Composition from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS, 2019), where he studied composition under Dr. Oliver Searle, and trumpet with Peter Franks.

Matthew has had works played by the RedNote Ensemble, players from the London Sinfonietta, RNCM Brand New Orchestra, The Llinyn Quartet, Spires Quartet, St. Anne’s Camerata, various ensembles from RCS, RNCM and Cambridge University, and the Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra – of which Matthew was a founding member with friend and conductor Edward Liebrecht in 2014. More recently, Matthew held the post of composer-in-residence with the RCS Brass Dectet in 2018/19, and was a finalist in RNCM’s Gold Medal Competition, 2021.

Matthew is also an avid promoter of the music of Robert Simpson (1921-97) and is a committee member of the Robert Simpson Society.

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