Matthew Wadsworth

Matthew Wadsworth (born 1975) is an English lutenist. Wadsworth was born in Manchester with blindness. He attended a school for the visually impaired as a child, but at age 16 he became the first blind student at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester.

Wadsworth went on to study with Nigel North at the Royal Academy of Music where he received the London Student of the Year award in 1997, in recognition of his work on the development of Braille lute tablature.

Wadsworth has appeared in many festivals and concert halls (e.g. Wigmore Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art) in Europe and North America; and his recordings have received critical acclaim. His solo recital cd's have been released by Channel Classics Records. He has worked with vocalists James Gilchrist and Carolyn Sampson as well as a number of other chamber musicians.

Wadsworth holds a teaching post at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff.

Followers of Matthew Wadsworth's musical career may be surprised to learn that he is at least as well known in the field of internet marketing, where he has enjoyed something approaching cult status due to the rapidity with which he attained a six-figure annual income from his online business activities, a level reportedly achieved within two years of start-up. Mr Wadsworth has specialized in what is known in the jargon of the industry as "passive income generation", computer programs which, once activated, trade on a systematic basis without direct intervention from their subscribers. His chosen trading medium has been UK horse-racing. He is the originator, under the business name Matt Watson, of the automated betting systems The Favorites Phenomenon and Laying Odds-On Favorites. Latterly his reputation in the close-knit world of online business has itself become a tradeable motivational commodity.