A little bit about Mat

Mat Heighway was a music scholar at Dean Close School in Cheltenham, England. He continued his musical studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England, where he studied double bass and singing. It was during this time that he first started to typset music.

After graduating, Mat worked as a freelance musician, both in London and in his native County of Gloucestershire, being active as a double bassist, tenor, and bass guitarist (more info), as well as running Meticulous Printed Music Production. After a serious illness, in 2002 he became double bassist in the band with the UK National Tour of the West End hit musical The King & I, spending 14 months on the road.

During this time, he bought a house in Bicester, Oxfordshire, where he now lives. On returning from the tour, Mat continued to work as a freelance musician, although he has had a variety of additional jobs, from office work for the Ministry of Defence to delivering demonstration cars.

Mat performs all over the country, particularly with West End show tours and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and since January 2004 he has played in the Oxfordshire-based blues band Mojo Bones. In 2003, on a visit to Jersey, met Emily Eastmond, to whom Mat got engaged on August 4th 2004. They got married on 20th August 2006. Find out more about their wedding here. Mat is currently the bassist with the UK National Tour of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

More info:

• Information on Mat's professional career



• Information on Mat's teaching

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• Mat's full CV (resumé)



• Mat's double bass CV (resumé)



• Mat's double bass programme biography