Dear friends,
Welcome to my site! I'm excited to have this opportunity to share samples of my music and keep you informed about upcoming events. If you are interested in performing my pieces, or if you have any other questions/comments, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Matthew Quayle has composed music in a wide range of styles and genres, from concert orchestral works to musical theater comedy. In recent years his music has been performed by Alarm Will Sound, the Arditti String Quartet, the Avalon String Quartet, eighth blackbird, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and the Southeastern Trio. He has also received commissions from the Almeida Theatre in London, the New London Children’s Choir, flutist Claire Chase, saxophonist Gail Levinsky, and cellist Ashley Sandor Sidon. In 2007 his string orchestra piece Gridley Paige Road received both the Grand Prize and the People's Choice Award in the Adagio Composition Contest of the Fauxharmonic Orchestra. He composed the introduction to the ‘Round Midnight Variations, a collection of variations by prominent contemporary composers on the Thelonius Monk theme; this work was premiered by pianist Emanuele Arciuli at New York’s Miller Theater in 2002.
Quayle frequently performs as a piano soloist and chamber musician. Recent collaborations have included recitals with clarinetist Deborah Andrus, cellist Jameson Platte, and flutist Elizabeth Ransom, He was also featured as a composer and performer at the 2006 Glens Falls Symphony Musicbridge Festival. In 1998 he performed his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, as winner of the Oberlin Conservatory Concerto Competition. He was a keyboardist and songwriter for the pop-rock sextet If I Told Napoleon in 2005-06.
A native of Waterville, NY, Quayle is currently an Adjunct Professor in Theory at New York University (GSAS). He has served on the faculty at New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine since 2002. He has also been a lecturer at Guilford College, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Quayle holds a Ph.D. in Composition and Theory from New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Cincinnati. He currently lives with his wife, Kate, in New York City.