Matthew Recio Matthew Recio New York Composer and performer of various mediums, Matthew Recio’s evocative compositions generate a vivid imagistic experience for listeners. His collaborations with dancers, artists, writers, and filmmakers offer a full spectrum of auditory and visual sensations. He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the Ithaca College School of Music with a B.M. in music composition and music education. While at Ithaca he received the Charles F. Hockett Music Composition Scholarship, which is awarded to one senior composition major each year. His principal teachers have included Dana Wilson, Eric Ewazen, Don Freund, Claude Baker and Sven-David Sandström. He is currently pursuing his M.M in composition at Indiana University’s Jacobs School. For three consecutive years his work was recognized by the Smadbeck Dean’s Prize Competition at Ithaca College for his works Canvas Sketches, Metamorphosis, and Italian Visions. His choral work, Through a Lens, received honors through the American Choral Directors Association at Ithaca College. His work has recently been selected for performance at both the 2014 and 2015 Midwest Composer Symposium to represent Indiana University in the chamber division for his works Sea Calls and How to Survive Vesuvius. His clarinet work, Sea Calls was featured at the 2015 University of Nebraska Kearney New Music Festival. At Indiana University he was a part of the Hammer and Nail Contemporary Dance Collaboration for his work Falling Out of Grace, and featured in the New Voices Opera Exhibition for 2014 and 2015. He was also a featured collaborator for the Double Exposure Live Film Scoring Initiative in 2015 and 2016. Matthew is the winner of the 2015 IMTA Opus young artist composition competition of Indiana where he was recognized this past October at the state festival for his string quartet, Clutch of Venus. He is the recent winner of the 2015 Quartet Nouveau (resident ensemble of the California Chamber Orchestra) composition competition and will have his work Clutch of Venus performed in San Diego this Spring. His choral work How to Survive Vesuvius was showcased at the 2016 ACDA convention in Boston this past February in a masterclass with Ēriks Ešenvalds and NY based vocal ensemble C4. He was selected as one of three finalists in Michael Kerschner's Young New Yorker's Choral composition competition and will have a new work premiered with the ensemble June of 2016. He was the first prizewinner of the 2015 NOTUS choral composition competition for his work How to Survive Vesuvius. That same choral work was also a winner of Brett Scott’s 2015 Cincinnati Camerata choral composition competition. Recently, Matthew has been selected as a finalist for the 2015-16 Morton Gould award for his choral work “They Say Memories”. His new opera "In Memoriam", with libretto written by Molly Korroch, was selected as the winner of the New Voices Opera competition and will be premiered in May 2017. In the past he has been chosen to participate in the Atlantic Music Festival as well as being selected as an emerging composer for the IMANI Winds chamber festival in New York City. Last Summer he was a composition fellow at the Valencia International Performing Arts program of Spain where his clarinet piece, Sea Calls, was performed by Ausiás Morant (Bass Clarinetist of the BBC Orchestra). This upcoming summer he will be working as a choral and composer fellow with Donald Nally's award-winning choir "The Crossing". He is also pleased to announce that he was awarded a residency composer position at the Norfolk Chamber Series hosted by the Yale School of Music this July. http://www.matthewrecio.com Matthew Recio’s tracks Trinkets: III. The Notes I've Passed to You (CSI) by Matthew Recio published on 2019/05/23 20:02:07 +0000 Trinkets: II. Count Them (CSI) by Matthew Recio published on 2019/05/23 19:51:39 +0000 Trinkets: I. The Shelf in my Room (CSI) by Matthew Recio published on 2019/05/23 19:51:38 +0000 Statues In London: I. He Kissed To Sleep by Matthew Recio published on 2019/03/12 17:27:24 +0000 Statues In London: II. He Cast His Wrathed Eyes by Matthew Recio published on 2019/03/12 17:27:22 +0000 Statues In London: III. I Walk The Cool Rooms by Matthew Recio published on 2019/03/12 17:27:21 +0000 In The Desert for Mezzo-Soprano and Sinfonietta (Georgina Joshi Commission) by Matthew Recio published on 2019/03/12 17:01:09 +0000 This is My... by Matthew Recio published on 2019/03/11 19:17:43 +0000 These Two Very Nights by Matthew Recio published on 2019/03/11 19:15:05 +0000 Finale from "In Memoriam": An Opera in One Act (2017) by Matthew Recio published on 2019/03/11 18:50:13 +0000
Trinkets: III. The Notes I've Passed to You (CSI) by Matthew Recio published on 2019/05/23 20:02:07 +0000
Statues In London: II. He Cast His Wrathed Eyes by Matthew Recio published on 2019/03/12 17:27:22 +0000
Statues In London: III. I Walk The Cool Rooms by Matthew Recio published on 2019/03/12 17:27:21 +0000
In The Desert for Mezzo-Soprano and Sinfonietta (Georgina Joshi Commission) by Matthew Recio published on 2019/03/12 17:01:09 +0000
Finale from "In Memoriam": An Opera in One Act (2017) by Matthew Recio published on 2019/03/11 18:50:13 +0000
