Matthew Hindson

Works have been performed by ensembles and orchestras throughout his native Australia as well as overseas in New Zealand, Germany, France, Austria, the UK, Holland, Portugal, the USA, Japan, Malaysia, Canada and Thailand * 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 * 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


"Hindson has amazing range. He could probably wring a concerto from the sound of a doorbell. His source material ranges from classical to Metallica to soothing melodic riffs that may have been extracted from an elevator. Best of all, it works." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"... gaudy, exuberant music... Mr Hindson’s score makes a wonderful racket... shamelessly big and juicily orchestral... broodingly and sometimes achingly intimate..." -- The New York Times