Andrew Matthews-Owen
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Andrew Matthews-Owen is a Welsh pianist and accompanist. He was born at Neath, South Wales.
Matthews-Owen studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He is the winner of awards including the Sir Henry Richardson Award for Accompanists (awarded by Roger Vignoles), a Ryan Davies Trust Award, a John Ireland Trust Award and the Elisabeth Schumann Prize. He has also twice been the recipient of an S4C Wales Scholarship.
He has performed at numerous major venues, partnering leading young singers, including the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, National Portrait Gallery, Bath Pump Rooms, St David's Hall and the Brangwyn Hall.
An exponent of the music of distinguished composer Alun Hoddinott, he premiered the composer's latest song cycle in Swansea in September 2006 with soprano Claire Booth and Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams.
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