A graduate of Oxford and Yale, with a PhD in musicology, Matthew taught music history to university students for 30 years, before retraining as a piano teacher for adult beginners and returners. Drawing on his life in music, his lessons offer mature learners opportunities to discover or renew their personal relationship with music, primarily through the piano, but encompassing musical appreciation and understanding, according to their interests. Matthew believes that studying music in a collaborative, holistic way, enhances wellbeing, helping us (so to speak) 'to compose ourselves', to reflect, and to communicate.