Matthew Lima

Matthew Lima is completing graduate studies in composition with Michael Finnissy and Steve Martland at the Royal Academy of Music. Attending as a British Marshall Scholar, Mr. Lima is one of forty Americans from all academic fields selected annually by the British Government to conduct two years of postgraduate study in the United Kingdom. Mr. Lima received his A.B. Summa cum laude in music composition from Harvard University, where his teachers were Mario Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, and Michael Gandolfi. Awards include the Hugh F. MacColl Prize, the John Green Fellowship, and the ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Award, in addition to commissions from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Manhattan Wind Quintet.