Matthew Curtis (born 1959 in Cumbria, England) is a British classical composer.
While he was a student at Worcester College, Oxford reading Classics, his work, including a symphony,[1] first began to receive public performance.
[2] On leaving university he was introduced to the late Alan Owen, a composer and BBC Radio staff producer, who took an interest in his music.
This led to numerous broadcasts of his work from 1982 onward in the UK, notably BBC Radio,[3] and in several other countries.
Reviews of his work in Gramophone,[11] on MusicWeb International,[2] an extensive review of his early work by the British Music Society,[12] and other reviews of recordings devoted to his orchestral works in the British Composer Series[13][14] all draw attention to his emphasis on and mastery of melody and orchestral colouring, and make stylistic references to Edward Elgar, Eric Coates and Haydn Wood among others.