Matthew Reid

Matthew Reid's latest album Courtyards and Fairgrounds

is now available on iTunes.Click below to access album



And on CDbaby



His music can also be heard on the following internet radio stations:

Medieval Mayhem

UnpluggedRadio.com

ChristmasRadio.com

Adagio.FM

Generally Gentle Radio



Champ Smacker can now be heard on

Comedy Old & New



Matthew Reid is a classically trained, eclectic composer.

Currently, he is the musical director for

The Second City -Toronto where he provides a live soundtrack nightly

for their latest revue, Barack to the Future.

He has become a specialist of providing live soundtracks for comedic and improv theatrical productions. He has performed with comedians from SCTV, SNL and Whose Line is it Anyway?

Reid has studied with some of Canada's most respected composers including: Chan Ka Nin, Walter Bucyzinski and Lothar Klein.

He's the other member of sketch comedy duo Reid Along with Browning, as well as

the music improviser for the award winning improv troupe Slap Happy.

Matthew is also a composer of serious classical music.

He refers to the style of his mature works as neo-post-romantic.



His slightly stupid music by Champ Smacker is simply that: stupid.



Here is a video that proves that:



Recently, he entered the Hockey Night in Canada Anthem Challenge.

Click below to listen.



"Matt Reid's improvised musical background never misses the mark" - John Terauds TORONTO STAR

"Matthew Reid adds texture and oomph to scenes

with some well-placed notes" - Glenn Sumi NOW

"Matthew Reid is the master of music" -

Paula Citron CLASSICAL 96.3 FM