Dr Matthew Pearson

Dr Matthew Pearson started out as a very reluctant organist having been nominated by his secondary music teacher to play the school organ for morning assembly. But in time he warmed to the task and by the age of 17 was organist at St Peter’s Irthlingborough in Northamptonshire where he played an engaging but somewhat cantankerous Compton.

After a break from playing at church, in 2013 he took up the post of organist at St Maxentius Bradshaw in Bolton and purchased a Johannus Studio 170 from Church Organ World to help him improve his playing.

Matthew trained as a teacher and after teaching in a sixth form college he took a post as Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Huddersfield and then became Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. He joins Makin from Learning by Questions, a company which specialises in digital classroom assessment based in Blackburn, from which he has a raft of experience in sales and working with customers and developing solutions to meet their exact needs.

Matthew quickly became a very knowledgeable member of staff who knows the ins and outs of the various brands and models we have on offer. According to needs Matthew meets up with customers in either Shaw or Mixbury and will often be found in churches discussing options after which he writes a formal survey report offering the PCC or other committee a variety of options to choose from and most importantly a step-wise route forwards.(p>