Matthew
Hindson studied composition at the University of Sydney and at the University of
Melbourne with composers including Peter Sculthorpe, Eric Gross, Brenton
Broadstock and Ross Edwards.Matthew HINDSON (b.1968)
Matthew
Hindson studied composition at the University of Sydney and at the University of
Melbourne with composers including Peter Sculthorpe, Eric Gross, Brenton
Broadstock and Ross Edwards.
Hindsonfs works have been nominated for awards, and have been performed by most professional ensembles and orchestras throughout his native Australia, iOverseas, his compositions have been presented in New Zealand, Germany, France, Austria, the UK, Holland, Portugal, the USA, Japan, Malaysia, Canada and Thailand, and have been featured at such key events as the 1994 and 2000 Gaudeamus Music Weeks in Amsterdam, the 1997 ISCM Festival in Copenhagen and the 1998 Paris Composers Rostrum.
His music often displays influences of popular music styles within a classical music context, and, as a result, musical elements such as driving repeated rhythms and loud dynamic levels are typically found in his works. Indeed, directness and immediacy are common features in the much of his music.
Currently the attached composer to the Queensland Orchestra 2003/2004, Hindson has been attached composer to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, as well as a featured composer at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival in Wales, during which fourteen of his works were performed by a variety of ensembles.