Liam Mattison (b. 1990) is a London based composer with connections to Yorkshire and Brighton.

Liam’s music is often delicate and contradictory, walking tightropes between system and intuition, personal and communal, abstraction and directness, quietly complex. His work often relies on half remembered melodies and expanding a singular moment of experience into a full suspended work. His music creates worlds that spin with time that bends, and he sees his work as capturing the moment you look at a the most beautiful object in the world.

Liam’s work has been commissioned and performed by various players, ensembles, institutions and festivals. These include the London Symphony Orchestra, London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists, CHROMA, Psappha, Crouch End Festival Chorus, and Apartment House, and under conductors Elim Chan, François-Xavier Roth and Jonathan Berman. His music has been heard at venues such as Barbican Hall, LSO St. Lukes, Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank Centre, London), St. John Smith’s Square, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Snape Maltings, Jubilee Hall, Dora Stouzke Hall (RWCMD), Dartington Hall, Conservatori Licieu (Barcelona) and as part of Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Buxton, Voices of London, Ether (Southbank Centre) and Impossible Brilliance: The Music of Conlon Nancarrow (Southbank Centre) festivals.

Liam studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. His primary teachers have included Oliver Knussen, Peter Maxwell Davies, Philip Cashian, Gwyn Pritchard, Edward Jessen and Andrew Poppy. In 2018 he was the recipient of a Royal Philharmonic Society Composer Prize.

Liam is also active as a freelance engraver and orchestrator. His work in this field has been heard and used at the Chichester Festival, the Cambridge (Willemijn Verkaik in Concert), Apollo (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), and Garrick (RSC’s Don Quixote) theatres, the Other Palace (The Wild Party) and for groups such as the Gabrieli Consort & Players.