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Matthew Coorey began his conducting career in 2003 when he was appointed Assistant Conductor to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. This initial one-year contract with the RLPO then became a three-year commitment when he was appointed the orchestra’s first Conductor in Residence.

Debuts soon followed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Hallé, Ensemble 10:10 and the London Mozart Players – all of whom offered further invitations.

Recent seasons have included debuts with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and at the BBC Proms.

Other highlights include return engagements with the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the National Orchestra of Ireland, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble 10:10, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and a tour of the far east with the Palestine National Orchestra.

 In April 2015 Matthew was invited to perform in Istanbul to commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign – a particularly great honour for an Australian whose relations fought in the Great War.

Matthew has a great interest in all forms of music and art forms and has toured Europe with Rosas Dance Company with Ictus Ensemble and  innovative rock bands These New Puritans and Efterklang. In 2016 he will work with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

Matthew has a strong commitment to working with younger musicians and regularly conducts at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has also worked with the orchestras of the Royal College of Music London, the Mendelssohn Hochshule Leipzig, the Trinity-Laban Orchestra London and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Future performances include return engagements with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as well as concerts with the Australian International Symphony Orchestra Institute, the Ljubljana Academy of Music and at the Australian National Academy of Music.

Matthew began his musical career as a horn-player and after studying at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music he performed regularly with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Brandenburg Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony and the Sydney Symphony.

Initially self-taught as a conductor, Matthew auditioned for Seiji Ozawa and was invited to the Tanglewood Music Festival where he worked with Jorma Panula who became his principal conducting teacher. The following year he attended the Aspen Music Festival where studied with David Zinman. For two years, Matthew was Junior Fellow in Conducting - under Sir Mark Elder - at the Royal Northern College of Music. He was a finalist in the Maazel-Vilar Conducting Competition, a fellow of the Allianz International Conductors’ Academy and a prize-winner at the Georg Solti Conducting Competition.

He has collaborated with artists such as Sarah Chang, Freddy Kempff, Steven Osborne, Yevgeny Sudbin, Roderick Williams, Elena Tokar and Pieter Wispelwey and has recorded for Classic FM (with RLPO) and for Naxos Records.