Michael Matthews (composer)

Michael Matthews, born August 28, 1950, is a Canadian composer and photographer. He completed a Ph.D. in composition at North Texas State University in 1985. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and works in Victoria, British Columbia. Matthews’ abstract photographs have been exhibited in Germany and the US. Canadian publisher At Bay Press has published Gibbous Moon, a book of photography and poetry created in collaboration with poet Dennis Cooley. Early life Michael Matthews was born in Gander, Newfoundland in 1950. At that time his father John Matthews was working for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as a ground operations manager. Matthews was still an infant when his family moved to Miami, Florida, where his father took a job with Pan Am. Growing up, Matthews lived in Miami, Kingston, Jamaica, Managua Nicaragua, Port of Spain and Piarco, Trinidad, and Karachi, Pakistan, where he attended and graduated from the Karachi American School (KAS). A year at Purdue University studying aeronautical engineering followed, and then a move to Los Angeles, where he changed his focus to music. After earning his Ph.D. in composition and conducting, Matthews took a nine-month teaching appointm