Composer / Artistic Director / Consultant

Matthew Whiteside

Award winning composer for concert and screen | Artistic Director of The Night With… | Consultant Specialising in Music Releases, Funding Strategies & Career Development | and sync agent with Whitebell Sync.

Author of The Guidebook to Self-Releasing Your Music: available to order directly from my website.

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Composer / Artistic Director / Mentor

Matthew Whiteside

Matthew Whiteside is an Irish composer, artistic director and sync agent based in Glasgow, named ‘One to Watch’ in the Herald’s Culture Awards and winner of the Light Moves Innovative Use of Sound Award for his work Entangled with Marisa Zanotti. His music has been described as “Effective and Unsettling” by BBC Music Magazine and “post-minimalist bold sparseness” by the Herald. Read his full biography.

Author of The Guidebook to Self-Releasing Your Music: available to order directly from my website.

Composer

I have worked with leading ensembles like Crash Ensemble, United Strings of Europe, and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. BBC Music Magazine described my music as ‘effective and unsettling,’ while The Herald praised its ‘post-minimalist bold sparseness.

Artistic Director

As Artistic Director of The Night With…, I curate concert series in informal venues, showcasing both emerging and established composers. It’s all about creating accessible, innovative experiences that connect audiences with the best of today’s classical music.

Consultant

Schedule a meeting or call to discuss your current projects. I offer tailored advice and industry insights on everything from self-releasing your music and securing funding, to career development and strategic planning, depending on what you need.

Sync Agent

Together with Naomi Belshaw, we represent a catalogue of around 25,000 classical pieces, spanning from early music through to contemporary experimental works and iconic orchestral compositions. Our collection covers a diverse spectrum of classical music ready for media placements.

Thoughts

News and Musings

Funding cuts and impact on jobs – TUC

This is my speech to Trade Union Congress on 10th September 2024 moving this motion.Congress,I speak…

Open Project Funded Projects

Today marks the closure of the Open Project Fund for Individuals (OPFI) from Creative Scotland due t…

Thoughts on concert presentation

I’ve just spent the weekend at Transit Festival/Festival2021 in Leuven, an excellent festival of con…

NEW EP IS OUT

Air, Ground, Life

Commissioned and recorded by the Glasgow Barons. Air,Ground, Life is a musical response to climate change.
Each movement explores a different facet of the earth with the slow moving techtonic plates of Ground developing into the light airiness of the harmonics in Air and finally onto Life and mechanisation.
The work finishes by referencing modified versions of the material in Ground and Air. This is intentionally ambigious and could be seen as a warning about where we are heading, if we do not change our ways, or a call for respectful symbiosis with the Ground, the Air and the Earth.

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