California native Matthew Brown is active in Los Angeles as a composer, orchestrator, arranger, producer, keyboardist, session singer, and tenor with the Los Angeles Master Chorale. His choral works, hailed by the New York Times as “quietly mesmerizing,” are featured on the Antioch Chamber Ensemble’s album Though Love Be a Day and are published by Schott, G. Schirmer, and Hal Leonard.
He completed his doctoral studies in music composition at the USC Thornton School of Music and has taught music at Caltech, Pepperdine University, and the Pasadena Conservatory. His awards include the VocalEssence Welcome Christmas! Carol Contest, VocalEssence Essentially Choral Commission, and C4 Composition Competition. He is an active SAG-AFTRA session singer on dozens of film, streaming, and game scores, including The Last Jedi, Rise of Skywalker, Wicked, and Sing 2. A longtime tenor with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, he has performed at the Salzburg Festival, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Barbican Centre in London, and the Auckland Arts Festival.
His works have been performed throughout the United States and internationally by groups such as Chanticleer, The Crossing, the American Modern Ensemble, withonevoice, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, L.A. Choral Lab, and the Atlantic Master Chorale, at festivals including the Mostly Modern Festival, the AxS (Art and Science) Festival, and the N.E.O. Voice Festival. He has arranged and orchestrated for Grammy-winning artists including EDM pioneer Moby, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, and film composer Germaine Franco. He currently works for Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Music and enjoys travel, camping, hiking, photography, and astronomy.
