Composing & Arr.

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To hear examples of Matheson's work, see audio samples.

Matheson's 1^st Piano Concerto, Rhapsody In Black & White, was his first major composition. Written for the composition module of the A-Level Music examination while aged 17, and examined through the Oxford, Cambridge & Royal Society of Arts Board, the concerto earned Matheson the highest mark in the United Kingdom in 1997.

In 1998, Matheson was awarded one of the three much-sought-after places on the Media & Applied Music Composition course at London's prestigious Royal Academy of Music after being auditioned by Hollywood conductor Nick Ingman.

Other works include:

Applause, Applause - the cast

The Mouse and The Toy Sailor

Viola concerto Khórepse for the Etchingham Festival, commissioned by Rev Robert Dixon, 2000
With Nassos Sopilis, composer, orchestrator, and producer for the Eugenio Tribizas musical CG animation feature The Mouse Who Wanted To Touch A Star, with Taim-Laps Animation Studios & ΕΡΤ, 2007

Disney's Make Mine Music

Jazz vocal transcriptions for Benny Goodman's All the Cats Join In on the dubbing session of Disney's 1946 classic Make Mine Music, for the DVD release 2007
Jazz arrangements of numbers from West Side Story + arrangements & orchestrations for the overture to Applause, Applause, London Palladium, 1997

Viola Concerto

Music for two Atari computer games by Flip Screen Entertainment, 1996
Matheson's piano arrangements of popular Icelandic songs were used on the quiz show Meistarinn with Logi Bergmann Eiðsson for Stöð 2, Icelandic TV, 2006
String arrangements for Hiding In Public's 2008 album on the track No-One To Save Me, and New Orleans jazz band arrangements for the track She Was Mine. Both received awards from GarageBand:

Award for *She Was Mine*. Click to go to the award site.

*Meistarinn* Quiz Show. Click to enlarge.

Mark Hole — F#
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Hear Matheson's Arrangements and orchestrations for the début album, F Sharp, of extraordinary singer/songwriter, Mark Hole, 2008
Theo Adams' performance piece, “Make it Happen”, featuring orchestrations by Matheson of Lena Zavaroni's “Going Nowhere”, for Frieze Art Week (sic.), London and the “OPTIMISM: THE ART OF OUR TIME” exhibition.

Tara O'Shea, DazedDigital.com
22^nd October 2008
“ …Then the finale, orchestrated by the gifted musical theatre composer Matheson Bayley, saw Theo singing his interpretation of "Going Nowhere", …as the near naked dancers were draped around the metal scaffolding bellow leaving behind a twinkling urban wasteland and an audience left in shock and awe. ”

Theo Adams
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Comedy Musical Theatre Review — The Spice of Life, recorded in Chicago with twenty-one deps from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 2003
Sonic logo for Psyon's Digital Radio Wave Finder advertising campaign, 2000
Setting of the John Clare poem December to music for choir and organ, performed by Benjamin Costello's Kingston Chamber Singers, 2001
Two pedagogic mnemonic songs for the Japanese Institute, London, for Japanese children to memorise the hiragana (ひらがな) & katakana (カタカナ) alphabets, 1998

Psyon's Wave Finder

John Clare, poet, 1793 – 1864

Japanese Katakana Song

Anna Vissi's (Άννα Βίσση) 2007 world tour – Arrangement & Transcriptions for Ain't No Other Man
Eurovision 2003: Piano Improvisations — solo piano CD available for purchase from the musical theatre shop Dress Circle, London, or from this site, here.
Medley of Queen songs, Royal Academy of Music's Musical Theatre Course, 2002
Organ concerto for the late Raymond Carls' memorial service, 1999
Various songs for Mary Hammond's Musical Theatre Course annual showcase & Christmas concerts at RAM, 2000-2002
Native Hue — "Eurovision Classics Revisited", with Alex Panayi, 2004 — CD available for purchase from the musical theatre shop Dress Circle, London, or from this site, here.

Hi-5's album: Far From This Earth

Yennithika Ksana

Agent showcase Written In the Stars orchestral backing tracks for Masters Performing Arts College, Rayleigh, 1999
String arrangement for Tell Me Why, début single of the Welsh singer, Grace (music and lyric by the artist; produced by Kevin Porée at Berry Street Studio, London.
Μακριά Απ' Αυτή Τη Γη ("Far From This Earth") — Greek pop group Hi-5's third album, 2004, Warner Music, (went Platinum), for which Matheson did the vocal arrangements & musical direction of recording sessions for the songs Επιστροφή ("Return"), Μπούρου-Μπούρου ("Blah, Blah!") & Γεννήθηκα Ξανά ("Born Again")

Lisa Andreas at Eurovision

Hi-5

Matheson co-wrote the lyric, with Andrew Adams, for Τώρα Και Πάντα ("Now And Forever") — the Greek language version of Stronger Every Minute (View Lyric), the Cypriot entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, 2004, sung by Lisa Andreas + arranged and produced the musical theatre version of the same track on which he played piano (see Audio Samples).
Orchestral backings for overture + songs for Performing Arts course at Freddie Eldrett's Prince Regent Theatre School, Farnborough, 1996-7

Christos Alexandrou

Cypriot flag

One original song + orchestrations & production for five covers on Christos Alexandrou's 2006 album One Look, Play Music label
Matheson recently submitted a composition to the European Union as part of a competition for the proposed new Cyprus National Anthem
Matheson's orchestrations for the medley for the Interval Act of the Cypriot National Final Song Contest for the ESC 2006 + of the opening number (the 1981 hit song Μόνικα ("Monica") were performed by Lisa Andreas, Alex Panayi and others (additional MIDI programming by Λεωνίδας Τζίτζος)

Rickard Engfors

Cypriot National Final. Click to enlarge.

Rickard Engfors' Schlager Cirkus

Orchestrations for a baroque remake of After Dark's chart-topping La Dolce Vita + a medley of Melodifestivalen entries for Rickard Engfors' 2005 Swedish tour, produced by Phoenix — Matheson's production team with Θανάσης Πασχάλης

Overture for Trafford Enterprises Business Networking Events, London, 2003
Fauré piano arrangements with Nasso Sopilis for Areti with the Asteria Dance Company, Athens 2006
Matheson's song If You Ask Me To Lie, (see Audio Samples to hear extract), interpreted live by Γιώργος Γαβριήλ, achieved 2^nd place in the jury results having been selected from hundreds of entries for the Cypriot National Final for the ESC, Λευκοσία, RIK, Cypriot TV, 2006
Matheson is currently working on a classical Song Cycle, and is writing the lyrics and music for a musical, Apollo, collaborating on the book with Mike Parren

If You Ask Me To Lie

Joy Destiny Tobing

String arrangements for Indonesian pop sensation Joy Destiny Tobing's hit ballad Love's Promised Land on her 4^th album, 2005 (went Platinum in Thailand & Indonesia)

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