Matthew Dewey BMus, MMusTech, MBA (Int’l)
Academic Qualifications
  • Master of Business Administration (Deakin University 2011-2015)
  • Master of Music Technology (Newcastle Conservatorium of Music 2007-2010)
  • Bachelor of Music (Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music 2003-2005)
Awards and Grants
  • Arts Bridge International Grant (Arts Tasmania) (2009)
  • Individual Artist Grant (Arts Tasmania) (2008)
  • International Arts Mentorship (Australian Foundation for Young People and Ars Musica Australis 2006)
  • Buzz Grant (Australian Council for the Arts 2005)
  • Dean’s Roll of Excellence for the Arts (University of Tasmania 2005)
  • IHOS Music Theatre and Opera Young Artist Bursary (IHOS 2004)
  • Don Kay Scholarship for Music Composition (Tasmanian Conservatorium 2003)
  • Dux of Advanced Music [received Highest Marks in Music Theory in Tasmania] (Elizabeth College 2001)
Positions
  • Music Director, ABC Classic FM (2015 – Current)
  • Senior Music Producer, ABC Classic FM (2013 – 2015)
  • Live Music Producer, ABC Classic FM (2011 – 2013)
  • President, Board of the Tasmanian Composers Collective (2011 – 2015)
  • Registered Sibelius Music Software Training Partner (2006 – 2012)
  • Director – Tasmanian Composers Collective (2006 – 2010)
  • Vice President, Board of the Australian Rosny Children’s Choir (2009 – 2010)
  • Lecturer in Composition – UTAS Conservatorium of Music (2007 – 2008)
  • Concert Presenter for ABC Classic FM – Australian Broadcasting Corporation (2007 – 2008)
  • Concert Series Administrator – Musica Viva Tasmania (2007 – 2008)
Professional Memberships
  • Associate Artist – Australian Music Centre (2009 – Current)
  • Affiliate Member – Australian Society of Musicology and Composition (2008 – Current)
  • Elected Writer Full Member of Australasian Performing Right Association (2005 – Current)
Festival / Concert Presentations / Recordings (highlights)
  • Queensland Music Festival – “Symphony of the Inland Sea” – Composed for the Mount Isa community (2015)
  • Recording with the Czech National Symphony at the Rudolfinum in Prague (2009)
  • Queensland Music Festival – “Ecstatic Visions” – Double Concerto for James Morrison, Julian Bliss and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (2013)
  • MONA FOMA (2011)
  • Recording with the Russian Philharmonic at the Moscow Radio House (2009)
  • Australian International Animation Festival “In a Pig’s Eye” (2008)
  • Melbourne International Animation Festival “In a Pig’s Eye”(2008)
  • Adelaide Fringe Festival (2008)
  • Australian Performing Arts Market – Lucy Who Productions “underwhere” (2008)
  • Pan Pacific Gamba Gathering (Hawaii) (2007)
  • 10 Days on the island (2001,2003,2005,2007)
  • Cygnet Folk Festival (2007)
  • Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music (2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007)
  • Lincoln Centre (New York) (2006)
  • Sydney Conservatorium of Music (2006)
  • Australian Performing Arts Market – IHOS Music Theatre and Opera (2006)
  • Adelaide Festival Centre (2005)
  • Hobart Summer Festival (2002,2004,2005)
  • Melbourne Federation Festival (2000)
  • St Helens Jazz Festival (1997,1998,1999,2000,2000)
  • Clarence Jazz Festival, Tasmania (1998,1999)
Symposia and Conferences
  • European Broadcasting Union Plenary of Music Experts (Australian Representative (ABC) – Geneva 2016)
  • European Broadcasting Union Plenary of Music Experts (Australian Representative (ABC) – Helsinki 2015)
  • Australian Festival of Broadway (Observer – ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop directed by Stephen Schwartz 2010)
  • Australian National Libretto Workshop (Writer Participant – IHOS Music Theatre and Opera 2007)
  • Sibelius Registered Training Partners Music Technology Seminar (Sibelius Music 2007)
  • Opera: a Conference on Theories of Music-Theatre and Contemporary Opera (Southern Cross University and Northern Rivers Performing Arts 2004)