Matthew Barnson is the composer of numerous works for orchestras, choirs, string quartets, voices, chamber ensembles, dancers, and computers. 
An associate professor  of composition at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he has received fellowships, commissions, and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 
His work has been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Wigmore Hall, Aspen, the San Francisco War Memorial and other venues throughout the United States and Europe. His debut album, Sibyl Tones, was released on Tzadik in 2014 and his second album, Vanitas, was released on Innova in 2019. He lives in New York.

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