My musical upbringing mainly consisted of songwriting / playing electric guitar in bands; experimenting with recording software and MIDI sequencing; and playing in my school jazz band. I later completed a Bachelor’s degree in Glasgow, at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where I studied composition with David Fennessy and Dr. Linda Buckley, electroacoustic composition with Dr. Alistair MacDonald, and jazz guitar with Kevin Mackenzie. In 2019, I moved to Aarhus to continue my studies with Niels Rønsholdt, Juliana Hodkinson and Simon Steen-Andersen at Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium. I graduated from the Soloist programme in 2024 (my debutkoncert was held at Teater Refleksion on 03.02.2024) 

I often work at an intersection between music for instruments and voices; electronic sound; text; video; interactive electronics; and performative media. Recently, my work has engaged with ideas of human frailties and a re-contextualisation of everyday sounds, happenings and automatic social and physical behaviours.

Recent pieces have involved, amongst other things, documentary techniques; audience participation; repetition; music-theatre; hold-music; gamification and quotation.

I am one quarter of the composer-performer group Current Resonance, regularly contributing to meticulously curated intermedial events. 

Recent commissions have come from Aarhus Kammerorkester; SPOR Festival (for Duo Van Vliet); Riot Ensemble / Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (for percussionist Sam Wilson); The Night With… (for The Hermes Experiment); Hebrides Ensemble / Edinburgh Book Festival; The Cumnock Tryst; Cryptic Glasgow; and Sasha Savaloni (guitarist) / Current Resonance.

One of four nominees for the Gaudeamus Award 2025, I'll present multiple works at the festival in Utrecht (NL), as well as a new work for NADAR ensemble, which will additionally be toured at partner festivals: Warsaw Autumn (PL), TRANSIT (BE) and New Music Dublin (IE).

My music has been programmed at festivals such as: SPOR Festival (DK); Darmstädter Ferienkurse (DE); Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK); Matera Intermedia (IT); St Magnus International Festival (UK); MINU_festival_for_expanded_music (DK); Ung Nordisk Musik 2022 (IS); The Cumnock Tryst (UK); Visiones Sonoras (MX); Sound-Image (UK)

I've had the opportunity to work on my music with, or have scheduled engagements with, artists and ensembles such as: SWR Symphony Orchestra; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; ensemble mosaik; Curious Chamber Players; percussionist Sam Wilson (Riot Ensemble); Aarhus Sinfonietta; Hebrides Ensemble; Red Note Ensemble; The Hermes Experiment; K!ART; accordionist Andreas Borregaard; violinist Anna Jalving; and guitarists Frederik Munk Larsen and Sasha Savaloni.

My debut electroacoustic EP Palettes was released on New York based label Not Art Records, and Daily Rituals for amplified quartet and playback, performed by The Hermes Experiment was released on TNW Music’s ‘Live Vol. 1’. 2024 sees the release of COLD CALLS, a short collection of pieces released on Don't Look Back Records (DK).

CALLS TO THIS NUMBER ARE BEING DIVERTED (evening-length music theatre) [2024] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPo5ow5LxNs&t=3s

En Dansk Symfoni (soloist, orchestra, electronics) [2024/2025] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjFD2UaYcoc

A very exciting product launch (for oboe, clarinet and string trio + video & audience participation) [2022] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0BPO9MbaSk

Keep still, the city can see you (for violin, synth and electronics) [2022] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG5_XDk0eH4

Silberblau (for solo guitar and electronics) [2020] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw617mUwr94&list=PL9Nx5i6vurgG8EJqcyKg6-9mBYDwpD3Fn&index=2

ctrl+Y (for four performers and live electronics) [2021] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8EGyYiI6fY&t=4s

Left Right, Left Right (for practice pad, drum trigger, live electronics and video) [2020] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IauCUHBjtQM&ab_channel=RiotEnsemble

See website: https://www.matthewgrousemusic.com/works-list