Andrew Matthews-Owen

Andrew Matthews-Owen is a Welsh pianist and accompanist. He was born in Neath, Wales, and now lives in London, England.

Concert engagements have taken him to venues around the UK and abroad, most notably the Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room), Kings Place, Warehouse, Birmingham Symphony Hall, St David's Hall, National Portrait Gallery; and on the Cutting Edge Tour, with artists including Patricia Bardon, Susan Bickley, Claire Booth, Lucy Crowe, Susan Bullock, Anne-Sophie Duprels, Rebecca Evans, Helen Field, John MacMaster, Gail Pearson, Natalya Romaniw, Nicky Spence, Elin Manahan Thomas, Katie Van Kooten, Sir Willard White, French horn player Richard Watkins percussionist Joby Burgess and the Brodowski and Allegri string quartets.

He has also appeared in words and music revues, with actors and personalities including Alexander Armstrong, Katie Derham and in numerous performances of A Celebration of Jane Austen with actors Robert Powell, Elizabeth Garvie, and flautist Clive Conway.

Matthews-Owen has broadcast live on numerous occasions for BBC Television and BBC Radio 3, most recently from the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre. He has given premieres of scores by composers including Michael Berkeley, Charlotte Bray, Philip Cashian, Laurence Crane, Jonathan Dove, Alun Hoddinott, Simon Holt, Hannah Kendall, Joseph Phibbs, Arlene Sierra and Augusta Read Thomas.

Recent CDs include an award-winning recording of Debussy, Fauré and Satie songs, with a new cycle by Jonathan Dove setting Debussy's Letters to Lily Texier and Emma Bardac ('Letters from Claude') which was one of the AllMusic.com Discs of the Year 2019.

He studied at Cardiff University as an undergraduate before winning a scholarship place as a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music.

Matthews-Owen is on the staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, is also Lead Tutor and Head of Piano (JT), and teaches piano and performance classes at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. He has also given master classes and workshops at the Royal College of Music, and the universities of Cardiff and Hull.

Competition successes include the Sir Henry Richardson Award for Accompanists (MBF), John Ireland Trust Prize, Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Prize, and the Ryan Davies Memorial Award.

In 2011, Matthews-Owen was awarded the inaugural T.Glanville Jones/Leo Abse and Cohen Award by the Welsh Music Guild for 'Outstanding Contribution to Welsh Music'.

He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in May 2012.