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.

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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.

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