Biography
Matthew Strover is a professional freelance cellist based in Upminster. He began playing the cello aged eight and continued his training at the Junior Royal Academy of Music at fifteen. Since then he has graduated from Trinity Laban and the Royal College of Music with BMus (Hons) (First Class) and Master of Performance degrees. During this period he studied under cellists Bozidar Vukotic, Natalia Pavlutskaya and Alexander Chaushian as well as receiving additional coaching from many renowned musicians including Alexander Ivashkin, Rivka Golani and Kathron Sturrock.
Matthew has performed at the St. Endellion Summer Festival in orchestral concerts under Ryan Wigglesworth, Martyn Brabbins and Aidan Oliver, in addition to chamber music engagements (Walton Façade and Mahler Piano Quartet). He has performed with the London Musical Theatre Orchestra at West End venues such as the Lyceum Theatre and London Palladium and recorded as a session cellist for Lee Mead's and Rachel Tucker's albums, boys' choir Libera and TV adverts including ASDA and Walkers Crisps. As a soloist his engagements with orchestras have included works by Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn and Bruch.
He has been active as a chamber musician with many groups for a number of years. He has toured Europe, China and, most recently, Japan with various ensembles and played under conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Sir Roger Norrington and John Wilson in orchestral concerts in the UK.
He teaches privately and is also Visiting Cello and Piano Teacher at two high achieving schools in the South East. Matthew performs on a modern cello built in 2016 by his father!