Matthew Olyver - Composer + Violist + Teacher
Matthew Olyver is an award winning composer (most recently, the 2019 Greater London Arts Society Composition Prize) who's music is regularly performed by some of the leading orchestras, music ensembles and soloists in the world.
Recent highlights include: a piano concerto written for Soma Balázs Piri and the London Mozart Players, the soundtrack for the feature film Iris Warriors written for the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, and a piece for viola and piano written for and performed regularly by the internationally acclaimed viola soloist Timothy Ridout.
With a significant background as a violist, Matthew has co-led the viola section of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and now regularly performs his own music in the ensemble setting of the Olyver New Music Collective (a collective of performers and composers Matthew has founded).
Matthew is also a passionate teacher of music theory, composition and viola/violin and he runs an extensive teaching practice in London. He is also a composition and orchestral workshop leader for the Procorda young strings experience. For enquiries about lessons, please contact his personal email address: matthewolyver@ram.ac.uk.
Recent highlights include: a piano concerto written for Soma Balázs Piri and the London Mozart Players, the soundtrack for the feature film Iris Warriors written for the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, and a piece for viola and piano written for and performed regularly by the internationally acclaimed viola soloist Timothy Ridout.
With a significant background as a violist, Matthew has co-led the viola section of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and now regularly performs his own music in the ensemble setting of the Olyver New Music Collective (a collective of performers and composers Matthew has founded).
Matthew is also a passionate teacher of music theory, composition and viola/violin and he runs an extensive teaching practice in London. He is also a composition and orchestral workshop leader for the Procorda young strings experience. For enquiries about lessons, please contact his personal email address: matthewolyver@ram.ac.uk.