CMRC Seminar – Matthew Whiteside
Event details
Matthew Whiteside will talk about his compositions and career as a composer and concert producer. As well as sharing insight into recent compositions, he will reflect on his work developing the award-winning concert series "The Night With…", through which he and his team commission, premiere, record, and release new work by some of the UKs leading contemporary music performers and composers (eg, Red Note Ensemble, Juice, Joanna Nicholson, Linda Buckley, Emily Doolittle), as well as providing an excellent platform for early-career creatives. He will discuss how his activity streams as composer and concert producer feed into and mutually benefit one other.
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Meeting ID: 974 1147 1887
Passcode: 030134
About the speaker
Matthew Whiteside
Matthew Whiteside is a composer, collaborator, sound designer, and concert producer based in Glasgow, named ‘One to Watch’ in the Herald’s Culture Awards 2017 and winner of the Light Moves Innovative Use of Sound Award for his work Entangled with Marisa Zanotti. His music has been described as “Effective and Unsettling” by BBC Music Magazine and “post-minimalist bold sparseness” by the Herald.
In 2020 he won the SMIA Award for Creative Programming at the Scottish Awards for New Music for his work on the 2019 The Night With… Season. His piece Night Thoughts is shortlisted in the Large Scale New Work (sponsored by PRS) at the Scottish Awards for New Music 2021. He has received international performances by ensembles and performers such as the RTÉ NSO, Red Note Ensemble, the Aurea Quartet, Pauline Kim Harris and Diagenesis Duo at venues such as New York University, Dublin’s National Concert Hall, Glasgow City Halls, and the Belfast International Festival at Queen’s.
He has been commissioned by Cottiers Chamber Project and Lorimer Productions for Cappella Nova and co-commissioned by sound festival and R-Space gallery to collaborate with Dominika Mayovich to create an interactive sound/art installation which resulted in Exhibition Music.