George Matthew, Jr. has been carillonneur of Middlebury College and Norwich University in Vermont since 1986. A church organist since the age of thirteen, he is currently Minister of Music of First Methodist Church of Burlington, Vermont.
Until his retirement in 1998, Mr. Matthew was also carillonneur of the First Presbyterian Church, organist and choir master of St. Andrew's Church, and associate organist of St. Mauricius Church, all in Stamford, CT. For eighteen years, he served as organist and choir master of Temple Sinai and for twenty-three years as Director of Instrumental Music at Rogers School, both in Stamford.
Mr. Matthew has made twenty-five carillon concert tours of the USA and eleven of Europe, performing in Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France, England, Ireland, and Scotland.
He has composed and arranged about one-hundred pieces for carillon, including a number of ragtime piano works; his rather unusual European debut was an all-ragtime program in Ostende, Belgium.
A member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America since 1980, Mr. Matthew has served on the Carillon Directory Committee, the Student Advancement Committee, and the Bellfounding in America Committee (of which he was chairman). He made the US presentation in Zutphen, Netherlands in 1990 at the World Carillon Federation.
He has studied carillon with Arthur Bigelow and Frank Law, organ with Hugh Ross and Ernest White, and composition with David Barnett. He is a graduate of Columbia, Bridgeport, and Wesleyan Universities.
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