Black Teen Composer Makes News

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    • Publish Date: Apr 10 2017 10:43AM
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    • Updated Date: Apr 10 2017 10:43AM
Black Teen Composer Makes News

Matthew Smith will make his debut at the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall.

An 11-year-old prodigy from the United Kingdom is about to make history by becoming the youngest conductor to lead a 75-piece orchestra, beating the previous record of a 14-year-old boy who directed the Venezuelan youth orchestra.  Matthew Smith will make his debut at the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall. He will conduct the city’s Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Johann Strauss’ operetta Die Fledermaus, a piece Matthew first listened to when he was 7.

For the past few weeks, he has been rehearsing with the full orchestra once a week. Matthew said that he was inspired after he saw a video of a 7-year-old conducting the nine-minute piece. He told The London Economic that he can now conduct the full piece from memory.  Matthew, who’s already a Grade 5 standard violinist, admitted to Sky News that he had some jitters when he first began orchestrating. “At first I was nervous but you just get used to doing it, but the thing is you just have to keep counting the beats,” he said. Matthew also plays the drums, guitar, piano and viola.


Neil Bennison, music program manager at the Royal Concert Hall, told The London Economic that Matthew’s skill level is rare. “Successful conductors have to be team managers, leaders, motivators and diplomats, and these people skills take time to develop and require a level of maturity that only comes with years of experience,” he said. “Orchestras can be pretty merciless to conductors for whom they have no respect, so you’d have to be a supremely confident young maestro to win over a lot of hardened professional musicians.” The prodigy’s music teacher and mentor Derek Williams told Sky News that he’s one of the most talented kids he’s worked with, but Matthew isn’t done learning yet.
 

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