New Album:
Watching the Sky
Available June 3rd
Canadian flamenco guitarist, composer, and teacher
Matt Sellick is a flamenco guitarist and composer originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario, now living in Toronto. Matt performs locally as a soloist and as an accompanist for flamenco singers and dancers, tours internationally with guitarist Jesse Cook, and gives private guitar lessons. With funding from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, Matt has produced four albums of original solo guitar music and one album of orchestral arrangements. He has had the privilege of performing as a soloist with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Consortium Aurora Borealis, and the Annex String Quartet.
Watching the Sky
Over the last decade, I’ve orchestrated much of my repertoire. This January, I had the chance to record those pieces with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra and Marito Marques. I’m releasing this project, my fifth album, on June 3rd!
This project was generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, and by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Now accepting students, for online flamenco lessons and tutorials
North Shore
In 2018, I decided to create an album on the north shore of Lake Superior. I wanted to bring my style of flamenco to the places that inspired me as a kid. I drove six hundred kilometres to visit, compose, and record in all the shoreline provincial and national parks between Thunder Bay and Sault St. Marie. The result is North Shore — my third solo album, released in 2019.
CFMU Artist Sketch on North Shore
“I think Matt is one of Canada’s finest flamenco artists today.”
Banner photo: Patrick Chondon - Westfort Productions
Live photo: Sławek Przerwa | NFM