Matthew Lawson was born in May 1987 at the seaside resort of Scarborough in northern England. He grew up further south along the coast at Bridlington before moving inland to a small village near the market town of Malton. He is currently studying A Levels at the Sixth Form College in the town. One of these A Levels includes Music. Matthew plays the trumpet and intends to play the piano in the near future. Matthew started writing music in 2002 when studying in his final year at secondary school. Since then he has written over twenty pieces of music in different styles and with different orchestration. He uses a Yamaha PSR-225GM linked to a home PC with a MIDI Cable to compose his pieces. The software he uses varies. Finale 2003, MusicTime 2.0 and Sibelius have all been used in his past compositions. The most popular style in which Matthew composes is New Age . Some of his music tends to have a medieval feel about it and other pieces are written in more of a fantasy style. Some of Matthews' best music are the pieces which evolve around events in his own life.