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Matt is an award-winning professional composer, arranger, performer, and educator who has worked with Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award winners from around the country.
In 2010, Matt founded www.Acappella-Songs.com, a company providing original contemporary a cappella arrangements. Since being founded, his arrangements have been performed by hundreds of groups in 26 countries spanning five continents. Recent clients include Harvard University, Yale University, Brown University, Cornell University, the prestigious London Contemporary Voices, and The AcoUsiKats (NBC's The Sing Off season four).
Matt currently teaches full-time at William Peace University in Raleigh, NC. His degrees include a B.A in Theory and Composition, a M.A in Music (concentration on composition), and a M.F.A in Media Scoring.
Prior to teaching at WPU, Matt served as full-time faculty at Campbellsville University and part-time faculty at Lindsey Wilson College. Matt has also worked with University of Kentucky, Centre College, Bellarmine University, and North Carolina State University.
Matt has ranked as a finalist/semi-finalist in six international music competitions (including multiple Top 10 placements). Recent scoring credits include award-winning documentaries previously streamed on NETFLIX and HULU, national and international television shows, award-winning films, national campaign pitches, award-winning video game prototypes, and NYC celebrity events. He has commercially released music with production companies who have serviced HBO, VH1, Warner Bros, Walt Disney Studios, Pixar, and Universal Pictures.
Matt has worked on projects that have received praise from The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Radio Disney, Fox & Friends, The Advocate, Variety, and MSN News. As a private instructor and coach, Matt has worked with clients who have performed on Broadway, in film and television, and who have won multiple national awards and competitions. He has also worked with singers previously seen on FOX’s American Idol and NBC’s The Sing-Off. Matt has twice been a judge for the Marvin Hamlisch International Film Score Competition (whose final round judges included Academy Award-winning composers). In 2013, Matt was a Miss America qualifying competition judge who helped choose Miss Louisville who went on to become Miss Kentucky and a top 15 Finalist in the 2014 Miss America Pageant).
Matt’s professional memberships include Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI- previously ASCAP), National Association of Composers USA (NACUSA), A cappella Education Association (AEA), Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA), Pi Kappa Lambda, and Alpha Psi Omega.
His academic research presentations include the 2010 MathFest National Conference (Musical Mathematics), the 2014 International Arts in Society Conference in Rome, Italy (Interdisciplinary Arts Technology), the 2016 International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference at Harvard University (Drama Therapy in Criminal Rehabilitation), and the upcoming 2017 European IJAS Conference in Vienna, Austria (Drama Therapy with the Homeless). He has toured with students through 25+ states and internationally through Canada, Ireland and England.
Besides his work, Matthew is incredibly active with multiple local and national charitable organizations that work to raise awareness and funding for various issues. Some of these issues include arts education, teenage bullying, domestic violence, supplies for soldiers overseas, child poverty overseas, and clothing for the homeless.
For more information about Matthew, visit www.matthodge.com
In 2010, Matt founded www.Acappella-Songs.com, a company providing original contemporary a cappella arrangements. Since being founded, his arrangements have been performed by hundreds of groups in 26 countries spanning five continents. Recent clients include Harvard University, Yale University, Brown University, Cornell University, the prestigious London Contemporary Voices, and The AcoUsiKats (NBC's The Sing Off season four).
Matt currently teaches full-time at William Peace University in Raleigh, NC. His degrees include a B.A in Theory and Composition, a M.A in Music (concentration on composition), and a M.F.A in Media Scoring.
Prior to teaching at WPU, Matt served as full-time faculty at Campbellsville University and part-time faculty at Lindsey Wilson College. Matt has also worked with University of Kentucky, Centre College, Bellarmine University, and North Carolina State University.
Matt has ranked as a finalist/semi-finalist in six international music competitions (including multiple Top 10 placements). Recent scoring credits include award-winning documentaries previously streamed on NETFLIX and HULU, national and international television shows, award-winning films, national campaign pitches, award-winning video game prototypes, and NYC celebrity events. He has commercially released music with production companies who have serviced HBO, VH1, Warner Bros, Walt Disney Studios, Pixar, and Universal Pictures.
Matt has worked on projects that have received praise from The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Radio Disney, Fox & Friends, The Advocate, Variety, and MSN News. As a private instructor and coach, Matt has worked with clients who have performed on Broadway, in film and television, and who have won multiple national awards and competitions. He has also worked with singers previously seen on FOX’s American Idol and NBC’s The Sing-Off. Matt has twice been a judge for the Marvin Hamlisch International Film Score Competition (whose final round judges included Academy Award-winning composers). In 2013, Matt was a Miss America qualifying competition judge who helped choose Miss Louisville who went on to become Miss Kentucky and a top 15 Finalist in the 2014 Miss America Pageant).
Matt’s professional memberships include Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI- previously ASCAP), National Association of Composers USA (NACUSA), A cappella Education Association (AEA), Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA), Pi Kappa Lambda, and Alpha Psi Omega.
His academic research presentations include the 2010 MathFest National Conference (Musical Mathematics), the 2014 International Arts in Society Conference in Rome, Italy (Interdisciplinary Arts Technology), the 2016 International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference at Harvard University (Drama Therapy in Criminal Rehabilitation), and the upcoming 2017 European IJAS Conference in Vienna, Austria (Drama Therapy with the Homeless). He has toured with students through 25+ states and internationally through Canada, Ireland and England.
Besides his work, Matthew is incredibly active with multiple local and national charitable organizations that work to raise awareness and funding for various issues. Some of these issues include arts education, teenage bullying, domestic violence, supplies for soldiers overseas, child poverty overseas, and clothing for the homeless.
For more information about Matthew, visit www.matthodge.com
