Christopher Matey is a composer based in Toronto, Canada.
 Born in 1972, he holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music
from the University of Toronto, where he studied composition with
Walter Buczynski, Gustav Ciamaga, and Christos Hatzis.  He
is also an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music
where he studied piano with Earle Moss.  Mr. Matey has
had several works performed as part of U of T's Thursday
Noon Series, provided incidental music for Victoria College's
1994 production of Orestes, and has participated in workshops
with the St. Lawrence String Quartet and the Canadian
Contemporary Music Workshop. His Music That Ends, a work for
chamber orchestra, was premiered at the 1996 Edmonton New Music
Festival by the Edmonton Chamber Orchestra under David Hoyt
and was performed again by the Kitchener-Waterloo Community
Orchestra in March 1997. His string quartet Four Strings was premiered
in July 1996 in Toronto by Composers' Orchestra under Gary Kulesha.
Various Tones, a work of his for clarinet and piano, was a third prize
winner in the First Edmonton Composers' Concert Society Young
Canadian Composers' Competition.  After a successful premiere
in Edmonton in Spring 1997 this work was performed again
in Toronto in January 1998.  The recent ECCS CD release
Brief Confessions Breves contains two pieces from his
Suite for solo piano, performed by acclaimed Toronto pianist
Eve Egoyan.   Inferno, a ballet based on Dante was the third
prize winner in the Music for Dance Competition of the
1997 Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur (Quebec).  Several
of his works are published in Canada by Grace Under Press.
Deconstruction was commissioned by the Toronto Youth
Wind Orchestra and was performed at their May 1998
All-Canadian Concert at the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts
in Toronto.  A live CD recording of this concert is now
available under the title Clearly Canadian.  Mr. Matey
is currently writing a piece for Onyx, a Toronto-based
wind quintet.

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