Matthew Larkin was born in Oxford and moved as a child to Canada, where he was a chorister at St George's Anglican Cathedral in Kingston, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto, where he was an Organ Scholar of Trinity College, and at the Royal College of Musíc in London. After various important appointments as organist and choirmaster he is now organist and director of music at Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa, and is Artistic Director of the Anglican Chorale of Ottawa and the Founding Director of Euphonia Chamber Choir. He enjoys an international reputation as an accompanist, recitalist and recording artist. As a composer he has contributed variously to choral repertoire. His chant for Psalm 111 aptly explores the possibilities of the Anglican chant.
