Matthew Schellhorn was a Park Lane Group Featured Young Artist for 2008. In January that year, he performed contemporary works with clarinettist Peter Sparks in the Park Lane Group Young Artists New Year Series at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London.
In 2009, to celebrate the Haydn bicentenary, he commissioned a set of six pieces from Tim Watts, Michael Zev Gordon, Cecilia McDowall, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Colin Riley, and Jeremy Thurlow. The set, called Homage to Haydn received its world premiere in the 2009 Cambridge Music Festival and was published in Muso magazine.
During 2010, he collaborated with the award-winning Ossian Ensemble in appearances at the Sounds New Festival in Canterbury and the newly established Kew Music Festival. Works performed included Bent Sørensen’s The Deserted Churchyards, Peter Maxwell Davies’s Missa super l’Homme armé and Eight Songs for a Mad King, and the world premiere of Patrick Nunn’s Isochronous.
Matthew is currently recording two discs of new music – chamber works by Pat Nunn (with percussionist Sarah Cresswell and violinist Maria Oldak) and Stations by Ian Wilson.
Composers with whom Matthew Schellhorn has worked include:
- Hugh Wood
- Robin Holloway
- Alexander Goehr
- Jeremy Thurlow
- Cecilia McDowall
- Ian Wilson
- James Francis Brown
- John Hawkins
- Lloyd Moore
- Gabriel Jackson
- Jane O'Leary
- Kenneth Hesketh
- Joe Duddell
- David Bruce
- Patrick Nunn
- Peter Wiegold
- Tim Watts
- Michael Zev Gordon
- Colin Riley
- Cheryl Frances-Hoad
- Nicola LeFanu
- Adrian Williams
- Darren Bloom
