As a violinist, Matthew has performed at the Royal Albert Hall alongside artists such as YUNGBLUD, Ed Sheeran, Liam Gallagher, Madness, and Don Broco, helping raise over £2 million in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust. His performances have been attended by notable figures including the late Queen Elizabeth II, HRH King Charles III, Pope Benedict XVI, Barack Obama, and the 14th Dalai Lama.

After leaving Winchester College as a music scholar, Matthew chose to focus on violin and conducting, with piano, organ, and singing taking a back seat. He went on to lead both the Hampshire and Surrey Youth Orchestras before becoming a professional violinist. Along the way, he won five Young Musician of the Year competitions and four concerto competitions, before choosing to study Mechanical Engineering at university.

While at university, music education became a cornerstone of his work. He took over as Music Director of the Guildford Youth Symphony Orchestra and transformed the group into a self-sufficient charity, providing free orchestral music education to over 200 young musicians annually. He also became a professor on the National String Course, an ensembles coach at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, and an adjudicator for the Haslemere International String Competition. He maintains a special involvement in the RGS String Scheme and recently reprised his role as narrator for How the Whale Got His Throat by Rudyard Kipling, arranged for orchestra and narrator by Jonathan Willcocks.

Since graduating, Matthew has seized every opportunity to learn, perform, and collaborate with exceptional musicians. His dedication has led to remarkable achievements, including becoming the youngest-ever principal conductor of the University of Southampton Symphony Orchestra, making his international conducting debut with the Royal Strings of St George in Serbia, and placing fourth out of 170 entries in the International Orchestra Conducting Competition in Bucharest.