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A native of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Stillman Matheson has studied organ performance and related musical subjects at Mount Alison and McGill Universities, and was awarded a Doctor of Music degree at the University of Alberta in 1996. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a New Brunswick Arts Award, a University of Alberta Dissertation Fellowship, and grants from the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Dr. Matheson was a member of the Alberta Baroque Ensemble and Director of Music at Robertson-Wesley United Church in Edmonton, Alberta. He was also the President of the Edmonton Centre of The Royal Canadian College of Organists.

Dr. Matheson has commissioned and/or premiered a large number of works by Canadian and foreign composers, to mention only the names of Violet Archer, Reinhard von Berg, Ronald Hannah, Jan Wincenty Hawel, Jacobus Kloppers, Stanislaw Moryto, G. Gordon Nicholson, Monte Keene Pishny-Floyd, Mieczyslaw Surzynski and Wladyslaw Zelenski. In 1997, during his tour in Poland, Dr. Matheson performed at the celebrated International Conversatorium of Organ Music in Legnica, and at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.

At present, Dr. Matheson is the Director of Music at St. Joseph’s Parish in Hamilton, Ontario.
 

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