Roger Matton OC (18 May 1929 – 7 June 2004) was a Canadian composer,[1] ethnomusicologist, and music educator.
[2] Born in Granby, Quebec, Matton was trained at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of Claude Champagne (composition), Isabelle Delorme (music theory), and Arthur Letondal (piano).
Matton started his career working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a composer in both radio and television.
In 1956 he joined the staff of Université Laval where he worked as a researcher and ethnomusicologist in the UL's folklore archives through 1976.
In 1966 the Montreal Symphony Orchestra included his Mouvement symphonique II in their concert repertoire for their 1966 tour of the Soviet Union, making it one of the first symphonic works by a Canadian composer to be performed in that nation.