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Professor Matthew Scott 

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Professor Matthew Scott is a Professor Emeritus of Composition in Music at the University of Southampton.

My professional experience is in the fields of television, film and theatre has left me with a very wide range of musical expertise and interest.

Although I wrote my PhD on the work of composer Kurt Weill, for the last thirty years I have pursued an active life as a professional composer, working in television, film and particularly theatre. I am currently Head of Music at the National Theatre in London, which is a producing job really, matching projects that come in with composers as required. Among the projects that I myself am working on are further live versions of the ‘Horrible Histories’ series, with which I have been associated since its inception, and various stage productions for both the West End, and commercial and subsidised theatre sectors. I work hard to maintain the widest possible range of musical interests, both in use and language, but the proliferation in media makes this harder every year.

Research interests

Although I wrote my PhD on the work of composer Kurt Weill, for the last thirty years I have pursued an active life as a professional composer, working in television, film and particularly theatre. I am currently Head of Music at the National Theatre in London, which is a producing job really, matching projects that come in with composers as required. Among the projects that I myself am working on are further live versions of the ‘Horrible Histories’ series, with which I have been associated since its inception, and various stage productions for both the West End, and commercial and subsidised theatre sectors. I work hard to maintain the widest possible range of musical interests, both in use and language, but the proliferation in media makes this harder every year!

Further details of my professional output can be found on my agent's website: www.unitedagents.co.uk/matthew-scott.

 

Affiliate research group

Composition and Music Technology

Research project(s)

Chi Mei Ricercari

Professor Michael Finnissy’s ‘Chi Mei Ricercari’ is a new work for cello and piano, written especially for three historic cellos from the world famous Chi Mei Culture Foundation collection of stringed instruments. It is heard in full for the first time on 10 December 2013 at Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, on 11 December at National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu and 12 December at National Taiwan University in Taipei.

Professor Matthew Scott
Music Department
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University of Southampton
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