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Matheson taught Western Classical Music (GCSE + A-Level equivalent), French, Spanish & Japanese for one year, living among the Busoga tribe, at Kiira College, Jinja, Uganda, 1998,

Prince Regent Theatre

Taught music theory at Freddie Eldrett's Prince Regent Theatre Performing Arts College, Farnborough, 1996-7
Piano, aural development, improvisation, harmony — private students 1999 - 2008

Music scholarship to Hampton School, aged 10
Received Honours from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London at the age of 16 with an unprecedented score of 100% in every module of Grade 8 Practical Musicianship
Awarded Distinction for Extended Level French and Grade A for A-Level Performing Arts, Spanish & Music

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Received the highest mark in the United Kingdom through the Oxford, Cambridge & Royal Society of Arts Board for A-Level Music 1997, which, for the composition module, included Matheson's 1^st Piano Concerto: Rhapsody In Black & White

Royal Academy of Music

Studied at the Royal Academy of Music on the Media & Applied Music Composition course, 1998-2001, under:
Dick Walter (Commercial Composition)
Tim Bowers & Ruth Byrchmore (Classical Composition)
Roger Marsden (Jazz Piano, Theory, Repertoire & Commercial Music Cultural Context Studies)

Erhu (二胡) — Chinese two-stringed violin

Rick Wentworth (Writing to picture)
Nicholas Walker & Daniel-Ben Pienaar & (Keyboard Skills: Mozartian Cadenza Improvisation, Fingered Bass, Orchestral Score Reduction)
David Petit (Aural Skills)
Amanda Glauert (Aesthetics)
Frank Lazarus (Musical Theatre History)
Ian MacPherson (Orchestration)
Denise Ham (Conducting)
Neil Heyde (Schenkerian Analysis)
Dominic Alldis (Improvisation)
Colin Huehns (Erhu (二胡) — Chinese two-stringed violin)
George Biddlecombe (Bach Chorales)
Paul Westwood (Recording Studio MD Technique)
Kenneth Reay (Music Technology)
James Brett (Pop Production)
Andrew Linehan (History of pop music)
Peter Waygood (Music Business Studies)
Jeremy Summerly & Gerard McBurney (Classical Music History)
Received Henry R Eyers Prize for the highest mark at the Royal Academy's Special-Level (Post-Advanced) Aural Skills, 2000
Japanese, Italian, Modern Greek & Linguistics courses at King's College, UCL, 1999-2002
Cubase Music Technology & Sequencing course, City Literary Institute, London, 2001
Master classes with Jerry Goldsmith & Collin Towns
Mainhill Award 2004 for best arrangement (for solo piano album of 2003)

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Sang on the Greek language soundtrack for the DreamWorks block-busting movie, Shrek 2, which won the Oscar in 2004 for the best dubbed movie version

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