Matthew is a singer, pianist, musical director, teacher and motivator with special interests in both early music performance, and music education in East Africa.
Beginning his musical career as a boy chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, he went on to study flute, saxophone and organ before singing tenor in Perth, Western Australia for a year. He returned to England to study Music at Christ Church, Oxford, where he began his lifelong exploration of early repertoires.

He has sung as a lay clerk at Westminster Cathedral, and with most of the early music vocal ensembles in the UK, in addition to his long-standing work with the Belgian Huelgas Ensemble. Concert performances and recordings have taken him throughout Europe (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland) as well as to Israel, Russia, Canada, Australia, Japan and most states of the USA.