Matthew Shlomowitz is a composer of contemporary classical music and Associate Professor in Composition at the University of Southampton.
Education
Sydney Conservatorium of
He was raised in Adelaide, Australia, and studied with Božidar Kos at the Sydney Conservatorium of and with Brian Ferneyhough at Stanford University. He also studied privately with Michael Finnissy in the United Kingdom.
Career
Since 2002 he has lived in London where he lectured at the Royal College of and for the Syracuse University London Program. He taught composition at Durham University during the 2008/09 academic year and was a Programme Collaborator for the Borealis Festival in Norway. He has been represented by the New Voices scheme at the British Information Centre and by the Australian Centre. al Style He has described his own music as being "something like the bastard love child of Brian Ferneyhough and Philip Glass.".
Membership
He is co-director of Plus minus ensemble and the performance series Rational Rec and is a member of InterInterInter, a group that creates events mixing performance and audience activity.