born1977, Norwich, UK

Matt Wright works as a composer and turntablist at the edges of concert and club culture,

his output stretching from music for Renaissance ensembles to large events combining Djs,

classical musicians and digital media.

Erosion, non-linear networks, the idea of music 'at the edge of collapse' and the dialogue

between 'stillness' and 'speed' are recurrent themes in his work and he favours an open and

ecstatic approach to material. 

He has created scores, performance scenarios, improvisations + turntablist backdrops with a

broad range of new music performers, including, amongst others, The Apollo Saxophone Quartet,

The Duke Quartet, Rolf Hind, Nicolas Hodges, Joanna Macgregor, London Flutes, ELEVEN and

Vamos! (UK), MTK, Ensemble Klang, The Maarten Altena Ensemble, The Percussion Group of

The Hague, SOIL and De Ereprijs (Netherlands), and ELISION (Australia). He has worked in venues

as diverse as Abbey Road studios (London), De Ijsbreker (Amsterdam) and Bunkier Stzuki (Krakow)

and his output has been streamed online, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Resonance 104.4FM and 

Channel 4 television. 

Matt lecturers at Canterbury Christ Church University (where he leads the urban music

ensemble CONTACT), is musician-in-residence at Goldsmiths College, London and is a visiting

 lecturer at The Royal College of Music. 

He studied with Richard Steinitz and Chris Fox at The University Huddersfield, with Louis Andriessen,

Martijn Padding and Richard Ayres at The Royal Conservatory, Holland and is studying with Roger

Redgate at Goldsmiths College.

Matt greatly acknowledges the support of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, SPNM and

the PRS Foundation in allowing him to be a composer.