"The Long Willows." Music by Matthew Lyon Hazzard. Text by Tammy Durston. Performed by The Choral Arts Initiative. Brandon Elliott, conductor.

The Long Willows (Choral Arts Initiative)

Music and text by Matthew Lyon Hazzard. Performed by the Portland State Chamber Choir. Ethan Sperry, conductor.

Flight (Portland State Chamber Choir)

There Is No Sea - Bass 2

There Is No Sea - Bass 1

There Is No Sea - Tenor 3

There Is No Sea - Tenor 1

There Is No Sea - Alto 3

There Is No Sea - Alto 2

There Is No Sea - Alto 1

There Is No Sea - Soprano 3

There Is No Sea - Soprano 2

There Is No Sea - Soprano 1

So Much to Seek - Bass 2

So Much to Seek - Bass 1

So Much to Seek - Tenor 2

So Much to Seek - Tenor 1

So Much to Seek - Alto 2

So Much to Seek - Alto 1

So Much to Seek - Soprano 2

So Much to Seek - Soprano 1

So Much to Seek - All Parts

From The Ocean Between Us. Performed by the Oregon Repertory Singers. Conducted by Ethan Sperry.

So Much To Seek (Oregon Repertory Singers)

"Traveler's Hymn." Music by Matthew Lyon Hazzard. Text by Jonathan Talberg. Written in loving memory of Germán Aguilar for the 2023 California Choral Directors Association Regional Honor Choir in Stockton. Dr. Jonathan Talberg, conductor.

Traveler's Hymn (2023 CCDA Central SATB Honor Choir)

Composed by U2. Arranged by Bob Chilcott.

Performed by the GCHS Varsity Singers. Naliesha Jones, soloist. 

Greene Central High School Varsity Singers & Choral Scholars
Matthew Lyon Hazzard, conductor.
Recorded May 18, 2016 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Greenville, NC.

GCHS Varsity Singers - MLK by Bob Chilcott

Greene Central High School Varsity Singers
Matthew Lyon Hazzard, conductor. Elias Adee, soloist.
Recorded May 12, 2017 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Greenville, NC.

With love.

Dream

GCHS Varsity Singers - Dulaman by Michael McGlynn

The Ocean Between Us, Mvt. I.

Commissioned by Jonathan Talberg and the Bob Cole Chamber Choir.

For mixed choir and piano accompaniment.

Synth Reductions

The Prow - All Parts

Performed by CORO at the Des Moines Choral Festival, July 26, 2018. Conducted by Matthew Oltman.

Composed by Matthew Lyon Hazzard. See more at http://lyonhazzard.com

Live Performances

Peace Flows Into Me (SATB & piano - CORO)

World premiere of The Ocean Between Us, a set of three songs for mixed choir, piano, string quintet, & crystal glasses.

Performed by the CSULB Bob Cole Chamber Choir on October 20th, 2018 at Los Altos United Methodist Church, Long Beach, CA.  Conducted by Jonathan Talberg.

Choral Recordings

So Much to Seek (CSULB Bob Cole Conservatory Choir)

World premiere of The Ocean Between Us, a set of three songs for mixed choir, piano, string quintet, & crystal glasses.

Performed by the CSULB Bob Cole Chamber Choir on October 20th, 2018 at Los Altos United Methodist Church, Long Beach, CA.  Conducted by Jonathan Talberg.

https://lyonhazzard.com/music/there-is-no-sea/

There Is No Sea (CSULB Bob Cole Conservatory Choir)

The Prow (CSULB Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir)

"Look Back on Time." Music by Matthew Lyon Hazzard. Text by Emily Dickinson. Winner of the True Concord Inaugural Stephen Paulus Emerging Composer Competition, 2018.

Performed by the Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir from California State University Long Beach. Matthew Lyon Hazzard, conductor.

Look Back on Time (CSULB Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir)

The Prow - Alto

The Prow - Soprano

"When We Are Gone." Music by Matthew Lyon Hazzard. Text by Jonathan Talberg. Commissioned by E. Daniel Shingleton in honor of the East Carolina University Chamber Singers, James Franklin, conductor.

Performed by the East Carolina University Chamber Singers. Conducted by James Franklin.

When We Are Gone (ECU Chamber Singers)

https://lyonhazzard.com/music/when-we-are-gone/

"When We Are Gone." Music by Matthew Lyon Hazzard. Text by Jonathan Talberg. Commissioned by E. Daniel Shingleton in honor of James Franklin and the East Carolina University Chamber Singers.

Performed by the Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir. Conducted by Jonathan Talberg.

When We Are Gone (CSULB Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir)

World premiere of "The Lamb." Music by Matthew Lyon Hazzard. Text by William Blake. Commissioned by Marcus Klotz and the Zoe Choir.

The Lamb (Zoe Choir)

For SSAA choir and piano. Commissioned by Julia Chapman for Les Belles Voix, Fountain Valley High School.

The Answer

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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