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Clarinettist Matthew Reid comes from Durban, where his first lessons were with Werner
Dannewitz. He has an honours degree from UCT and completed a postgraduate course
at the Royal College of Music in London. He also holds a diploma in Orchestral Studies
(Dip NCOS) from Goldsmiths College in Greenwich. His teachers included Leslie Craven,
Alfred Prinz in Vienna, Guy de Plus in Paris and John McCaw in London.
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He won the SASOL and Oude Meester Prizes for instrumentalists in 1986.
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He recorded Peter Klatzow's Clarinet Concerto with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra
in 1992, and recently his Sonata with Pieter van Zyl.
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For many years he has been fascinated by the unique clarinet playing of the Jewish
clarinetist Giora Feidman, and this has led to much involvement in Klezmer music
from Eastern Europe.
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He performed extensively with the Sontonga String Quartet in 2006 and 2007 Arts
festivals in South Africa, giving the first performances of Oswald Golijov's extraordinary
Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind in this country.
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He gave over thirty recitals last year with pianist Pieter van Zyl and their duo
won the 2008 Kanna Award in the category of Classical Music at the Oudtshoorn KKNK.
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Matthew runs both the Playing with Fire Balkan Band which has featured in Cape Town's
popular Balkanology Parties, and the Playing with Fire Klezmer Band. Please visit
Playing with Fire.
This year he will be the music director of the annual Yiddish Song Festival in the
Baxter Theatre for the tenth consecutive year.
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