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Artistopia Rank : 227
Member Since : 9/2008
Last Login : 11/24/2008
Views : 4,958
Songs : 1
Events : 0
Alliances : 0
Releases : 1
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Artistopia URL :
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| Latest Music By Matthew Reid |
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Courtyards and Fairgrounds
Published Date : 09/2008
Total Downloads : 9
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Artist Biography |
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Matthew Reid is a classically trained, eclectic composer. Currently, he is the musical director for The Second City -Toronto where he provides a live soundtrack nightly for their latest revue,
Barack to the Future.
He has become a specialist of providing live soundtracks for comedic and improv theatrical productions and has performed with comedians from SCTV, SNL and Whose Line is it Anyway?
Reid has studied with some of Canada's most respected composers including: Chan Ka Nin, Walter Bucyzinski and Lothar Klein.
He's the other member of sketch comedy duo Reid Along with Browning, as well as the music improviser for the award winning improv troupe Slap Happy.
Matthew is also a composer of serious classical music. He refers to the style of his mature works as neo-post-romantic.
His first solo album Courtyards and Fairgrounds is available for digital download on
iTunes and CDbaby.
Artist Mission
To ensure that new classical music will once again be music that people can listen to without wincing or wondering, "What went wrong?" To create classical music that with appeal to the broadest possible audience without dumbing it down and certainly not for a small group of misanthropes who think beautiful music is for jerks.
Music Influences
Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Hindemith, Machaut, Perotin, Mahler, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Copland, Schubert
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