In todays pandemic economy, our our local musicians and being hit very hard. Without the ability to perform for you, the audience, they are struggling. Some of the wonderful organizations I work with lie on the brink of desolation because of this situation. Please consider supporting them indirectly through me or directly to them. Thank you from the bottom of my Vocal Range :-)

Matthew Lyon Hazzard (b.1989) is an award-winning composer, conductor, and educator from North Carolina. Praised for his “exquisite text-setting” and for creating “stunning landscape[s] of sound” (18th Street Singers), Matthew's music has garnered numerous accolades. He was named the winner of the 2017 ACDA Raymond W. Brock Student Composition Competition, a prize winner of the International Choral Composition Competition Japan 2016, and the inaugural winner of True Concord’s Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers Competition, in addition to several others. His music is increasingly performed by collegiate and professional ensembles around the world, including the Metropolitan Chorus of Tokyo, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and others.

​

Holding a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from East Carolina University, Matthew taught at Greene Central High School (NC) for four years, where his choirs performed on the stage of Carnegie Hall and received consistent superior ratings under his leadership. He is now pursuing his M.M. in Choral Conducting at California State University Long Beach, where he continues to write for voices.

Wonderful Choral Music from Canada for all types of choirs

A thriving media organization at the forefront of digital innovation, NPR creates and distributes award-winning news, information, and music programming to a network of 975 independent stations. Through them, NPR programming reaches 26 million listeners every week.

Smart, Friendly, Local - Portland. Listen to PRP: http://prp.fm/

Singer and composer particularly interested in choral music

Amer Isse is following