George Matthew Jr., Organist & Carillonneur


George Matthew, Jr. has been carillonneur of Middlebury College and Norwich
University in Vermont since 1985. A church organist since the age of 13, he is 
currently Organist of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Middlebury, 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 18 years,
he served as organist and choir master of Temple Sinai and for 23 years as
Director of Instrumental Music at Rogers School, both in Stamford.

Mr. Matthew has made 36 carillon concert tours of the USA and 13 of Europe,
performing in Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France,
England, Ireland, Scotland, and Russia. In August 2005, he played two carillon
concerts on the new carillon of St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, in St.
Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Matthew is the first American to play carillon in
Russia.

He has played organ recitals in the New York and New England area, as well as
in Germany and the Netherlands. In recent years, he has made a study of
Russian organ music and has played a number of recitals of entirely Russian
music on the organ. In July of 2012 he played the 12th such program for the
Summer Russian School of Middlebury College. In June 2004, he was named
Artist of the Year by the Vermont Chapter American Guild of Organists.

He has composed and arranged about 100 pieces for carillon, including a number
of ragtime piano works; his rather unusual European debut was an all-ragtime
program in Ostende, Belgium.

A Carillonneur member of the Guild 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.