I’m a composer, performer and organiser originally from Yorkshire (UK), currently living and working in Copenhagen (DK). I often work at an intersection between music for instruments and voices; electronic sound; text; video; and performance. My music regularly engages with a re-contextualisation of everyday sounds, objects, and automatic, repetitive behaviours to reveal the latently musical in the familiar or even mundane.

Recent pieces have involved, amongst other things, documentary techniques; audience participation; repetition; music-theatre; hold-music; gamification; speech transcription and quotation.

Recent commissions have come from Gaudeamus Festival (for NADAR), KLANG Festival, SPOR Festival (for Duo Van Vliet), Aarhus Kammerorkester; Riot Ensemble / Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (for percussionist Sam Wilson); The Night With… (for The Hermes Experiment); Hebrides Ensemble / Edinburgh Book Festival; The Cumnock Tryst; and Cryptic Glasgow.

I was awarded the Gaudeamus Award 2025. I've twice been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, most recently in 2024 with the evening-length music theatre piece CALLS TO THIS NUMBER ARE BEING DIVERTED in the Best Stage Works category.

My music has been programmed at festivals such as: SPOR Festival (DK); Darmstädter Ferienkurse (DE); Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK); Gaudeamus (NL); Warsaw Autumn (PL); TRANSIT (BE); Matera Intermedia (IT); New Music Dublin (IE); MINU_festival_for_expanded_music (DK); Ung Nordisk Musik 2022 (IS); The Cumnock Tryst (UK); Visiones Sonoras (MX); SPOT Festival (DK)

I was a member of composer-performer group Current Resonance between 2021-2025, regularly contributing to meticulously curated intermedial events. In 2026, alongside Joss Smith, I co-lead an ensemble based in Copenhagen 'Ear Transplant'.

As of 2024, I teach composition at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium (MGK) in Copenhagen.

Matthew Grouse