Matthew Shlomowitz (born 7 February 1975) is a composer of contemporary classical music and Associate Professor in Composition at the University of Southampton.
He was raised in Adelaide, Australia, and studied with Božidar Kos [sl] at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and with Brian Ferneyhough at Stanford University.
He taught composition at Durham University during the 2008/09 academic year and was a Programme Collaborator for the Borealis Festival in Norway.
A number of his works are interdisciplinary such as the music-video pieces Train Travel[4] and Six Aspects of the Body in Image and Sound (co-created with Rees Archibald) and an ongoing series of works for visual performer and musician called Letter Pieces.
Such apparent absurdity and humor is not unintended; it has been said that,[5] ... he seems to have a special feeling for those inadvertently comical situations in which we all sometimes find ourselves: a peculiar kind of miscommunication where we don’t so much get our wires crossed ... as get entangled in them Some of his music shows the structural constraints analogous to the rules of Oulipo;[5] familiar sounds from popular and everyday culture are also a regular feature of his music palette.