M. Matsuo received his MA degree from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He was awarded many prizes including the special prize at Japan-France Contemporary Music Composition 1985, the 1st Prize at ACL Young Composers Award 1988 Hong Kong and selected for ISCM World Music Days 1992 Warsaw. His works were performed by various music groups and musicians all over the world; Tokyo Philharmonic Europe Tour 1944, Tokyo Symphony, Lisbon Gulbenkian Orchestra, Badische Staatkapelle Karlsruhe, Hong Kong philharmonic, Lincoln Center, Royal Festival Hall, Suntory Hall, Melbourne, Taipei, Seoul, Praha, and etc. In 1998, He was invited as a jury from Besancon International Competition. He was Executive Chairperson of ISCM World Music Days 2001 in Yokohama, and was the planner of Tokyo philharmonic Asian & Pan-pacific Composers Series 1998-2001. And his newest pieces will be premiered at Music From Japan 2007 in New York and Musica Viva 2007 in Lisbon and Porto.
  At present, he is a professor at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, is also teaching at several other music schools in Japan including Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and is working on many composing and conducting.