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Matthew Curtis (artist)
Matthew Curtis may refer to: * Matthew Curtis (artist), Australian glass artist, winner of the 2022 FUSE Glass Prize * Matthew Curtis (composer) Matthew Curtis (born 1959 in Cumbria, England) is a British classical composer. Life and career Matthew Curtis was born in Cumbria, England in 1959. He is essentially self-taught as a composer and orchestrator. While he was a student at Worces ... (born 1959), British classical composer * Matthew Curtis (mayor) (1807–1887), British industrialist and mayor of Manchester {{hndis, Curtis, Matthew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FUSE Glass Prize
JamFactory (formerly spelt Jam Factory) is a not-for-profit arts organisation which includes training facilities, galleries and shops, located in the West End precinct of Adelaide and on the Seppeltsfield Estate in the Barossa Valley, north of Adelaide. It is supported by the South Australian Government, University of South Australia, and private donors. It was founded in 1973 in an old jam factory in the suburb of St Peters. It runs training courses and specialises in high quality craft and design objects, including furniture, jewellery, ceramics, glass, and metal ware. History JamFactory was established as a craft training workshop by the Dunstan government, housed in an old jam factory on Payneham Road, in the suburb of St Peters. It was officially opened in November 1974. It was created as a not-for-profit undertaking, and included areas for making glass, jewellery, textiles, and leather work. It also had a gallery and shop. In the early days, ceramicist Margaret Dodd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Curtis (composer)
Matthew Curtis (born 1959 in Cumbria, England) is a British classical composer. Life and career Matthew Curtis was born in Cumbria, England in 1959. He is essentially self-taught as a composer and orchestrator. While he was a student at Worcester College, Oxford reading Classics, his work, including a symphony, first began to receive public performance. On leaving university he was introduced to the late Alan Owen, a composer and BBC Radio staff producer, who took an interest in his music. This led to numerous broadcasts of his work from 1982 onward in the UK, notably BBC Radio, and in several other countries. In 2001 he came to the notice of the composer and record producer Philip Lane, resulting in a significant discography and over 8 hours of music recorded. His music has been played in concert by the BBC Concert Orchestra and I Musici de Montréal. and by several non-professional and youth orchestras, most notably the National Children's Orchestras of Great Britain, fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |