A voice of aesthetic openness, exquisite taste, extreme craftsmanship, and a rare synthesis of the rational and the emotional.
Mats Liljeroos, Hufvudstadsbladet
There is something grand and disarmingly all-embracing about Matthew Whittall’s 12-prelude cycle Leaves of Grass.
Jukka Isopuro, Helsingin Sanomat
Whittall understands the cold poetry of ice and darkness.
Hannu-Ilari Lampila, Helsingin Sanomat

Canadian-Finnish composer Matthew Whittall (b. 1975) began his studies in Montreal. He earned degrees in performance and composition from Vanier College, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Stony Brook University, before settling in Finland in 2001. There he studied at the Sibelius Academy, receiving his Doctor of Music degree with honors in 2013. Whittall’s prolific output covers a wide variety of genres, particularly orchestra, voice, chorus, chamber and solo instrumental works, with occasional forays into electronics. His works have been commissioned and performed by the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony, the Helsinki Chamber Choir the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, among others, and have featured in festivals and radio broadcasts across Europe, North America and Japan.

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