Professor Matthew Marshall BIO
Published on 16 November, 2010
Professor Matthew Marshall is Dean of the School of Creative and Performing Arts at Central Queensland University, Australia.
Prior to his appointment at CQU Matthew was Director of Performance at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington 2007-2009, Visiting Professor of Music at the University of Plymouth, UK from 2006-2009, Director of Music at Dartington College of Arts, UK 2006-2007, and Head of the Conservatorium of Music at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand 1996-2006.
Matthew is an internationally recognised concert performer and recording artist on the classical guitar, having given over 2000 recitals and concerts since 1983 throughout Europe, Asia, America, Australasia, and the Pacific Islands: from Iceland to Easter Island! He has also appeared as soloist with the Berlin Chamber Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Guanajuato & Michoacan Symphony Orchestras in Mexico and the Kemerovo Philharmonic in Russia.
As a recording artist Matthew has released five CDs and appears on another four in collaboration with other international artists including the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Voices New Zealand, Kronos Quartet and others. He has also been recording for Radio New Zealand since the age of 17 and has recorded for radio and TV in Australia, USA, Germany, England and Mexico.
Sought after as a teacher, Matthew has given masterclasses at the Conservatorio Nacional de Mexico, the Mannes College of Music New York, the Gnessin Academy of Music Moscow, the Queensland Conservatorium Brisbane, the Canberra School of Music, the Malaysian Institute of Art, the Victorian College of the Arts, the Dartington International Summer School UK, and many others.
Upcoming projects in 2011 include the release of a CD of Claude Bolling's Concerto for Guitar & Jazz Piano Trio; the publication of a volume of classical guitar music by New Zealand composers by Promethean Editions, the publication in UK of a volume of music by the Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu by Comus Editions UK, and the premiere performance and recording in Los Angeles of the Double Concerto for Classical and Jazz Guitars by Grammy winner Bill Cunliffe with American guitarist Bruce Forman and the Rodger Fox Jazz Orchestra. He will also be appearing as soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall, London performing NZ composer Philip Norman's Concertino for Guitar & String Orchestra.
As a New Zealander, Matthew is an advocate for contemporary New Zealand music, with more than 40 works written for or premiered by him including concertos, solo and chamber works and has given the premiere performances of guitar concertos by New Zealand composers David Farquhar, Anthony Ritchie, Philip Norman, John Ritchie, Patrick Shepherd and Sir William Southgate.
In his spare time Matthew enjoys amateur astronomy, reading about physics & cosmology, mechanical and electrical engineering and working in his garage restoring classic cars. He also enjoys watching rugby & cricket.