Matthew Whiteside

Originally from Northern Ireland, Whiteside moved to Glasgow after studying music at Queen's University, Belfast. In 2012, he was awarded his masters in composition from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and since then has worked as a freelance composer. His work has been featured in Sound Festival,{{Cite web|url=https://www.cmc.ie/events/2018/nov/soundfestival-2018-matthew-whiteside-work-performed|title=soundfestival 2018: Matthew Whiteside work performed}} the Cottier Chamber Project,{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/cottierchamberproject/docs/cottier_chamber_project_2016_brochu|title=Cottier Chamber Project 2016 brochure|website=Issuu|access-date=31 December 2018}} Edinburgh Festival Fringe (as part of the Made in Scotland Showcase){{Cite web|url=http://www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com/shows/echoes-and-traces|title=Echoes and Traces {{!}} Made in Scotland|website=www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com|access-date=31 December 2018}} and the NI Science Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://nisciencefestival.com/2018/event.php?e=37|title=Entangled – John Bell Lecture & Concert Performance}} His music has been performed by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera Connect, Cappella Nova,{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/14719762.music-review-cappella-nova-sing-echoes-and-traces-in-stirling-castle-chapel/|title=Music review: Cappella Nova sing Echoes and Traces in Stirling Castle Chapel|website=The Herald|location=Glasgow|access-date=30 December 2018}} Red Note Ensemble, Ensemble Offspring, the United Strings of Europe and Garth Knox and broadcast on BBC Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q3lwm|title=BBC Radio Scotland – Classics Unwrapped, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World finalists|publisher=BBC|access-date=30 December 2018}} BBC Radio Ulster,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09rz322|title=BBC Radio Ulster – Classical Connections with John Toal, Seán Morgan-Rooney, Tom Myles, Matthew Whiteside, Winter Olympics|website=BBCf

|access-date=30 December 2018}} RTÉ lyric fm,{{Cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/sound-out/programmes/2018/1216/1017532-sound-out-sunday-16-december-2018/?clipid=103001928|title=Sound Out Gig Guide – Sunday December 16th|website=RTÉ lyric fm|access-date=30 December 2018}} BBC Radio 3,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06g1nkv|title=BBC Radio 3 – Late Junction, Wednesday – Verity Sharp|publisher=BBC|access-date=30 December 2018}} BBC 6 Music{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06jdjnt|title=BBC Radio 6 Music – Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, Laurie Anderson|publisher=BBC|access-date=30 December 2018}} CyBC and WFMT.

With support from Creative Scotland, in 2015, Whiteside released his debut album Dichroic Light featuring a selection of music for soloists and chamber ensembles both acoustic and with live electronics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.creativescotland.com/explore/read/stories/music/2015/matthew-whiteside-dichroic-light|title=Dichroic Light: the debut album from Matthew Whiteside|website=creativescotland.com|access-date=30 December 2018}} Solo for Viola D’amore and Live Electronics, recorded by Emma Lloyd and featured on Dichroic Light, was described as having the overall effect of ‘one of meditation – a Japanese stone garden whose raked ripples have been brought into sound’.{{Cite web|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/May/Whiteside_light_IMBT1501.htm|title=Musicweb International Dichroic Light Review}} The same year he was commissioned to collaborate with artist Dominika Mayovich on When Two Worlds Collide, an interactive installation for R-Space Gallery{{Cite web|url=http://www.rspacelisburn.com/two-worlds-collide/|title=R-Space Gallery {{!}} Two Worlds Collide|website=www.rspacelisburn.com|access-date=31 December 2018}} and Sound Scotland, and he scored the documentary, Michael Palin's Quest for Artemisia for BBC 4 directed by Eleanor Yule{{Citation|title=Michael Palin's Quest for Artemisia|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5329696/|access-date=30 December 2018}} and Bernd Porr's indie feature film, Anna Unbound.{{IMDb title|4069042|Anna Unbound|2015 film}}

Whiteside was commissioned in 2016 by Lorimer Productions to compose Nobilis Humilis inspired by the hymn to St Magnus, "Nobilis, humilis" for Cappella Nova's Echoes and Traces tour.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsmagazine.com/articles/echoes-and-traces-across-scotland/|title=Echoes and Traces Across Scotland|date=19 August 2016|website=The Scots Magazine|access-date=30 December 2018}} The same year he was commissioned by Cottier Chamber Project to compose a piece based on the work of Lord Kelvin and John Stewart Bell for Juice Vocal Ensemble, Glasgow University Chapel Choir and Davur Juul Magnussen trombone ensemble for performance in the University of Glasgow Cloisters. The resulting piece was called Always Ever Unknowable with words written by Danish Playwright Helene Grøn. He also attended Magnetic North's Rough Mix residency in Aberdeen.{{Cite web|url=https://www.magneticnorth.org.uk/rough-mix/rough-mix-2018|title=Rough Mix 2016 {{!}} Rough Mix|website=www.magneticnorth.org.uk|access-date=30 December 2018}}

In 2017, Whiteside was commissioned by Scottish Opera to again collaborate with Helene Grøn for a short opera for Scottish Opera Connect called Little Black Lies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/media/2696/opera-sparks-2018.pdf|title=Scottish Opera, Opera Sparks|website=scottishopera.org.uk|access-date=30 December 2018}} He was also accepted onto the RTÉ NSO/CMC composer lab to write Repercussive{{Cite web|url=https://www.cmc.ie/news/151116/composer-lab-2017|title=Composer Lab 2017|date=15 November 2016|website=Contemporary Music Centre|access-date=30 December 2018}} and commissioned by the Institute of Physics for the NI Science Festival to collaborate with Marisa Zanotti on writing Entangled for string quartet, electronics and film based on the work of John Stewart Bell for and premièred at the NI Science Festival 2018 by the Aurea Quartet. This work was also featured on his second album Entangled release in October 2019. He also scored David Graham Scott's The End of the Game{{Citation|title=The End of the Game|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6495322/|access-date=30 December 2018}} and was supported by Creative Scotland to attended the Atelier for Young Festival and Cultural Managers in Shanghai run by the European Festivals Association.{{Cite web|url=https://www.creativescotland.com/__data/assets/excel_doc/0013/44140/7-Awards-Made-July-2017-v5.xlsx|title=July 2017 Awards Listing|website=creativescotland.com|access-date=31 December 2018}}

While still a student he founded Edit-Point with fellow composer Timothy Cooper. Together, along with Nicholas Virgo and Louise Rossiter, they produced 16 concerts of electroacoustic music including concerts at Sound Scotland, Belfast Festival at Queen's and Glasgow City Halls.{{Cite web|url=http://www.edit-point.co.uk/past-performaces/|title=Past Performances|date=20 November 2012|website=Edit-Point|access-date=31 December 2018}}

In 2016, Whiteside began The Night With...{{Cite web|url=https://www.creativescotland.com/what-we-do/latest-news/archive/2018/6/composer-matthew-whiteside-the-night-with|title=Composer Matthew Whiteside curates new gig series, The Night With...|website=creativescotland.com|access-date=30 December 2018}} putting contemporary classical music into informal venues. The Night With... became a SCIO{{Cite web|url=https://www.totalgiving.co.uk/charity/the-night-with|title=The Night With – TotalGiving™ – Donate to Charity {{!}} Online Fundraising for Charity UK|website=www.totalgiving.co.uk|access-date=30 December 2018}} in 2018 with Whiteside as CEO & Artistic Director. As of December 2018 he has produced 17 concerts in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen as The Night With...{{Cite web|url=http://thenightwith.co.uk/events/|title=The Night With... Concerts|website=The Night With|access-date=31 December 2018}}

Along with his concert work, in 2023 Whiteside self-published The Guidebook to Self-Releasing Your Music to support composers and musicians through a self‑release process and share his experiences of releasing his own music and developing the record label of The Night With....{{Cite web |title=Book Review {{!}} Guidebook To Self‑releasing Your Music |url=https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/book-review-guidebook-self-releasing-your-music |access-date=2024-10-05 |website=www.soundonsound.com}}

• 2023
• (Shortlisted) The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Award for New Music Trailblazer{{Cite web |title=Scottish Awards for New Music shortlist announced |url=https://www.classical-music.uk/news/article/scottish-awards-for-new-music-shortlist-announced |access-date=2024-10-05 |website=Classical Music |language=en}}
• 2021
• Award for Large Scale New Work (11+ performers), sponsored by PRS for Music at the Scottish Awards for New Music for Night Thoughts{{Cite web|title=New Music Scotland|url=https://newmusicscotland.co.uk/awards2021/|access-date=2021-06-26|website=newmusicscotland.co.uk}}
• 2020
• The SMIA Award for Creative Programming at the Scottish Awards for New Music for The Night With... 2019 season{{Cite web|title=New Music Scotland|url=https://newmusicscotland.co.uk/awards2020/|access-date=2021-06-04|website=newmusicscotland.co.uk}}
• 2019
• The List Hot 100{{Cite web|url=https://www.list.co.uk/article/112277-the-hot-100-2019-music/|title=The Hot 100 2019: Music|date=1 November 2019|website=The List|access-date=4 December 2019}}
• 2018
• Light Moves Innovative Use of Sound Award{{Cite web|url=http://www.lightmoves.ie/award-winners/|title=Light Moves 2018 Award Winners}}
• (Shortlisted) Best Musical Artist – Sunday Herald Culture Awards{{Cite web|url=http://newsquestscotlandevents.com/events/cultureawards-2/|title=Sunday Herald Culture Awards 2018}}
• PRS for Music Foundation Classical:Next Fellow{{Cite web|url=https://www.classicalnext.com/previous_editions/2018_edition/program/fellowships|title=Classical:NEXT Fellowships – Classical:NEXT|website=classicalnext.com|access-date=31 December 2018}}
• 2017
• One To Watch – Sunday Herald Culture Awards{{Cite web|url=http://newsquestscotlandevents.com/stars-come-scotlands-cultural-oscars/|title=Sunday Herald Culture Awards 2017}}
• Scottish Opera, Opera Sparks

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• Speak Ye (Un)comfortably (2024; viola, accordion)
• Emptiness (2023; soprano, string orchestra)
• Ground, Air, Life (2021; flute, clarinet, horn, percussion, violin, cello)
• Night Thoughts (2020; flute, clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, electric guitar, violin, viola, cello, double bass)
• Rama (2019; flute, bass clarinet, percussion, piano)
• Quartet No. 6 (2019; string quartet)
• Quartet No. 5 (2019; string quartet)
• ...Everyone is a Child of the Inbetween... (2018; soprano and clarinet. Words by Helene Grøn)
• Quartet No. 4, Entangled (2017; string quartet, electronics and film)
• Little Black Lies (2017; soloists, chorus and ensemble. Libretto by Helene Grøn)
• Repercussive (2017; orchestra)
• Piece for Violin and Bass Clarinet (2017)
• Dry Vista (2016; contrabass flute and electronics)
• Nobilis Humilis (2016; choir)
• Always Ever Unknowable (2016; vocal trio, choir and trombone quartet. Words by Helene Grøn)
• Unda Malacia (2016; tape)
• Exhibition Music (2015; 2x bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello and electronics)
• Solo for Viola D’amore and Electronics (2015)
• Three Pieces for Bass Clarinet and Electronics (2014)
• Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass (2013)
• Well, Well, Well (2013; flute, viola, double bass)
• Ulation (2013; viola and live electronics)
• Vociferous Palpitation (2012; tape)
• Dichroic Light (2011; cello and electronics)
• Quartet No. 3 (2011; string quartet and electronics)
• The World in an Oyster, the Oyster in the World (2011; piano trio)
• for Matt Mattera (2010; trumpet)
• Puddle Wonderful (2009; female soloists and chamber orchestra)
• Quartet No. 1 (2008; string quartet)

Dichroic Light – IMBT 1501{{Cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/release/ec7d76da-a03a-485a-b984-8d78212c6ddf|title=Release 'Dichroic Light' by Matthew Whiteside – MusicBrainz|website=musicbrainz.org|access-date=30 December 2018}}

Anna Unbound – IMBT 1502

Exhibition Music – IMBT 1601

Piece for Violin and Bass Clarinet – IMBT 1701{{Cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/585beaca-dea2-47cc-a98d-cde97733ef41|title=Release group 'Piece for Violin and Bass Clarinet' by Matthew Whiteside – MusicBrainz|website=musicbrainz.org|access-date=30 December 2018}}

...Everyone is a Child of the Inbetween... – IMBT 1801{{Cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/be971d03-0ab6-4e67-8561-aaf440b0a6be|title=Release group "...Everyone is a Child of the Inbetween ..." by Matthew Whiteside – MusicBrainz|website=musicbrainz.org|access-date=30 December 2018}}

Unda Malacia – MW 1901

Entangled – MW 1902{{Cite web|url=https://www.matthewwhiteside.co.uk/entangled-album/|title=Entangled|date=2 July 2019|website=Matthew Whiteside|access-date=4 December 2019}}

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