Matthew Marshall

MATTHEW MARSHALL is Professor and Dean of the School of Creative and Performing Arts at Central Queensland University, Australia and is one of New Zealand’s leading classical guitarists. He was a prize-winner in the 1988 Young Musician of the Year Competition and a recipient of an AGC Young Achievers Award and the UDC/Rotary Young Musicians Prize in 1989. He also won prizes in the Royal Overseas League Music Competition in London in 1990, Australia/New Zealand Foundation Awards in 1991 & 1995 and a NZ-France Friendship Award in 2006.

Matthew has performed throughout Europe, Asia, Pacific Islands, America, Australasia, and from Iceland to Easter Island! He has also given over 80 concerto performances in New Zealand, Mexico, Russia and Germany including appearances with the Berlin Chamber Orchestra, the Guanajuato & Michoacan Symphony Orchestras in Mexico and the Kemerovo Philharmonic in Russia. Included in this are over 40 performances of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.

Matthew has been recording for Radio New Zealand since the age of 17 and also features on nine CDs for solo guitar, chamber music and with orchestra. He is also an advocate for contemporary New Zealand music, with more than 40 works written for or premiered by him including six concertos and numerous solo and chamber works.

Matthew has held previous positions as Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth (UK), Director of Music at Dartington College of Arts (UK) and Head of the Conservatorium of Music, Massey University.
Learn more about Matthew at: www.matthewmarshall.net.nz

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