Matthew Keegan-Phipps is a performer, composer and teacher in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

He attended William Brookes School in Much Wenlock, Shropshire until 1996; then he went to study Music at New College, Telford with Bob Wysome.

Matthew gained a BA (music) from Durham in 2002. He followed the mantra of "if you've got a 1st class degree, you didn't have a life" closely - by spending huge amounts of his university years singing, conducting, dancing, acting, and organising organisations and groups.

Following graduation in 2002, he worked as a music teacher (unqualified) at Phoenix School in Telford for a year - this was a chance to find out whether teaching was something he could really see himself doing for a career. Initially, it wasn't - instead, he decided to make an effort to go into professional composing by studying for his Masters degree in Composing, again at Durham University. With a year's worth of hindsight, however, he came round to teaching again and gained his PGCE in 2005, working at schools in Hartlepool and Tudhoe, County Durham.

He returned to Phoenix, as a qualified teacher this time, to complete his probationary year, and then moved on via Hadley Learning Community and Bournville School and Sixth Form College to Belvidere school, where he works as Head of Music.