About matthew hill
Matthew Hill is a native of Los Angeles who has lived a somewhat peripatetic life, including fifteen years in Scotland. He holds a BMus (Hons, 1st class) in composition from Napier University and a MMus in organology from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently completing his PhD there on the development of the early electric guitar.
The trumpet is a wonderful instrument when a good player is available who can both control it and perform artistically, and one is immediately surprised that on an instrument without slides, in the high register nearly all tones are available one after the other, also a fair number of semitones, and that one can play all sorts of melodies. Michael Praetorius
One of the founding curators of the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, he has also advised and curated musical instrument exhibits at places as varied as the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California, and Harrods in London.
He is also curator of the John C. Hall collection of musical instruments at Rickenbacker International Corporation in Santa Ana, California.
A regular contributor to international journals and conferences, he was most recently a contributor and consultant to the forthcoming book, The Guitar Collection.
In addition to academic pursuits, he has enjoyed a varied musical life that includes being a Nashville session player, art music composer and rockabilly doghouse bassist. He is probably one of the few people who can say that they have played at CBGB's and had their orchestral music played by the BBC. Not at the same time, though.
