1993 Recorded 'Traditional Songs of Wales' for Saydisc records, Gloucester alongside other prominent musicains.
1994 Recorded 'Cico nyth cacwn' with Jonathan Shorland, the first ever album of Welsh bagpipe music for Cardigan
record company [Fflach.]
1995 Commissioned to compose and perform new music based on the traditional called 'Brig y nos' for Sioned Huws
& Simon Whitehead dance company, funded by the Welsh arts council.
1996 Recorded the theme music for the S4C news on the pipes.Composed and recorded soundtrack for the bafta
award winning animated film 'A Comets tale' by Gerald Conn.
1996 and 1997 Piped at the {William Kennedy piping festival, Armagh} alongside Paddy Keenan, Neillidh Mulligan,
Allan Macdonald, Fred Morrison, Kathryn Tickell, Anxo Lorenzo and others.
1996 Formed fernhill with Julie Murphy, Andy Cutting and Jonathan Shorland. Recorded the groups first album for the Oxford label Beautiful
Jo records. British Council tour of southern Africa with fernhill. Invited to become artistic director
of newly formed traditional music label fflach:tradd. Subsequently produced and directed seventeen CD's
of international critical acclaim over the next eight years
1997 British Council tour of east Africa with fernhill including collaborations with musicians in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
1997 Founded Pibau Pencader - a long term self funding music project in west Wales devoted to playing, making and researching pibe cwd and pibgyrn.
1998 fernhill one week residency at the national theatre in Kampala, Uganda leading to collaborative
performances which came out of the 1997 visit for the British Council. British Council
tour of Swaziland and Mocambique including joint performances with musicians from both countries
and performances for the president of Mocambique and the King of Swaziland. Britain and Greece
festival - performances by fernhill in Athens and Volos
1998 Played the pipes with hip-hop band 'Y Tystion' on their album 'Shrug off ya complex.'
1999 Commissioned by Dawns Dyfed, Cwmni Dawns Ieuenctid Ceredigion and the Rowntree Foundation to compose
and perform the music for 'Cof' - a contemporary dance piece involving 150 young people.
1999 Performed at the Edinburgh festival concert Ceol na Pioba at St Cecelia's hall.
2000 Appeared as a solo artist and with fernhill and Y Tystion in the bafta award winning film 'Beautiful mistake'
by Mark Evans which also featured performances by John Cale, James Dean Bradfield, Super Furry Animals, Gorky's
and Catatonia. British Council tour of Vietnam with fernhill during which a word had to be created in Vietnamese for
'Wales' which had up until that point come under the generic term for the UK of 'England'.
2001 compiled the 'Rough Guide to Welsh Traditional music' CD for the World Music Network label.
2002 Gave a paper at New York State University on Welsh vernacular culture. Tour of Libya for the British Council
with pipe group Pibe Bach including performance at the Drj festival in the sahara with Touareg and Berber musicians.
It was the first visit to Libya by British musicians in over 30 years. Subsequently invited by Helena Kennedy,
outgoing chair of the British Council to perform in Clarence House for Prince Charles and others in May 2004.
British Council tour of east Jerusalem and West Bank with Pibe Bach including workshops with Palestinian musicians and schoolchildren.
2003 British Council tour of Oman with Pibe Bach. Played pipes on Wepun Ex Project's Vinyl 'South Wales Beat and Funky Fresh.'
2004 Composed and produced the soundtrack to the short film 'Llifo' commissioned by the Mwldan media centre, Cardigan
2004 Performed at the British Museum at a forum hosted by the Heritage Lottery fund entitled Who do we think we are? Heritage and
Identity in Today's Britain.The event was hosted by Melvin Bragg and the panel included representatives from government, media,
the heritage sector, the arts and beyond.
2004 Toured England with fernhill - supported by Arts council of England
2004 Played flute and pipes at Lorient festival with Cass Meurig
2004 Performed at Clarence House for Baroness Kennedy and Prince Charles
2004 Performed as part of 'fuse' at Theatr Royal to celebrate the 70th anniversary of
the British Council. Performing with singer Julie Murphy and freestyler Dorian 'nobsta nutts'
Philips and sharing a stage with Benjamin Zephaniah, Roger McGough and others.
2004 Worked on music for 'True Thomas' a narrative of the life of Thomas Gee. Performed the work
with Hugh Lupton, Chris Wood and Robert Harbron at 'Beyond the Border', St Donats and at the Hay literature festival
2004 Short tour of southeast Ireland with Diarmuid Johnson and Dylan Fowler
2005 Recored and released album of flute music from west and south Wales on his own label, disgyfrith
2005 Short tour of west Wales with Diarmuid Johnson and Christine Cooper
2005 Tour of Belgium and Holland with fernhill
2005 Lectured at Welsh college of music and drama
2005 Played pipes at the funeral of Gwynfor Evans
2005 Began series of solo gigs including the Drwm at the National Library, Aberystwyth and the Waterfront Museum, Swansea.
2005 Tour of Latvia with fernhill
2005 Concerts in Brussels with fernhill
2006Began 'Cegin Ceri' series at thteatr Mwldan. A series of non- concerts designed to re-place social music
nearer to its original source and to negate the importance of the proscenium and of performance in 'folk' music. Guests
have so far included Allan MacDonald, Hilmar Hilmarsson & Steindor Andersen, Chris Wood, Beverley Smith & Carl Jones, Llio Rhydderch,
Neillidh Mulligan, Sille Ilves, Mairi Smith, Christine Cooper, Stephen Rees and Desi Wilkinson
2006 Recorded Pibddawns CD.
2006 presented yscolan live with Tomos Williams and Beverley Evans
2006 performed music for 'Blodeuwedd' with CIC in Theatr Flinfach, Ceredigion and Stornoway, Western isles
2006 recorded pipes with jazz quintet 'Burum' for their CD 'Alawon'
2007 played with fernhill at 'Celtic Conections' Glasgow
2007 soundpiece collaboration with cambro-estonia duo sild and visual artist blue macaskill for the national waterfront museum swansea
2007 gigging with Burum and fernhill
2007 produced CD's for Pigyn Clust and Sild for Fflach:tradd
2007 played at Hay fringe with Christine Cooper
2007 established sesiwn Ioan Rhagfyr in collaboration with Ty Siamas Dolgellau - a long term self funding project to
reintroduce flute making and playing in the area. Made over 80 flutes with local children and continue to teach children and adults
on a regular fortnightly basis.
2007 wrote and gave a paper at the Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies annual conference at the University of Wales,
Bangor, THE FREEDOM TO RESPOND TO A FOUND TUNE - A PIPER SPEAKS
2007 Taught at the English Acoustic Collective's summer school at Ruskin Mill, Glos. with Chris Wood.
2007 played at Lahemaa international bagpipe festival in Estonia with Sille Ilves and Neillidh Mulligan
2007 tour of Wales plus dates at Worldport festival, Whitby and Teatro Lope de Vega, Seville, with Christine Cooper.
2007 held the first yscolan residential music retreat for musicians at Pentre Ifan, Pembs.
"Ceri Matthews from Wales has spent a decade or more bringing back from extinction the Welsh
pipes and has created a beautiful music informed by the Welsh language and song tradition."
Brian Vallely - Director {William Kennedy piping festival, Armagh}