Saxophonist, composer and band-leader Matt Anderson graduated from Leeds College of Music in 2010 with First Class Honours, also receiving the Sam Hood Rosebowl for Outstanding Performance. He has since studied with Iain Ballamy and Stan Sulzmann and was awarded ‘Young Musician of the Year’ at the Jazz Yorkshire Awards 2010. He has gone on to work with many of his former tutors, appearing in bands led by Jiannis Pavlidis, MATT ANDERSON 2Jamil Sheriff, Mark Donlon and Jamie Taylor as well as featuring on Taylor’s latest CD ‘Introducing Outside Line,’ and he released his debut album with his band Wild Flower Sextet in 2015 alongside a national tour, with Selwyn Harris of Jazzwise describing it as, “their own unique stamp on Shorter’s very personal repertoire… of a quality that resonates with its inspirational source… Enjoyably un-pretentious.” He relocated from Leeds to London in 2015 and is currently studying for an MA Performance at the Royal Academy of Music.