Matthew Peterson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Matthew Peterson
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Jul 22, 1984(1984-07-22)
Age	40
Birthplace	Grand Forks
Country	United States
Birth City	North Dakota
Horoscope	Cancer

Matthew Peterson Biography

Matthew Peterson is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on July 22, 1984 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. Matthew Peterson was born July 22, 1984 and is a composer of operas as well as choral works, orchestral, chamber, and orchestral music.

Lifeboat is an opera with a libretto by Emily Roller. It was inspired by the Syrian refugee crises. It was a John F Kennedy Center Commission for Washington National Opera and premiered at the Kennedy Center on January 14, 2017. Classical Voice America was impressed by Peterson’s vocal writing and orchestration skills. Anne Midgette, Washington Post, wrote that “Lifeboat” began with a dramatic storm scene and then moved to the calm of the becalmed. It focuses on three survivors of shipwreck in a lifeboat and ends in a vocal trio that Peterson made truly beautiful.

Peterson’s music has been performed at venues across Europe and North America such as the Kennedy Center, Stockholms Konserthuset, Minneapolis Orchestra Hall and Gothenburg Konserthuset by ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, Washington National Opera, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, VocalEssence, Malmö Symphony, Chanticleer, Vanemuine Symphony, Fort Worth Opera, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and others. His works are regularly performed on St. Olaf College’s annual Christmas Fest concerts.

Peterson received the ASCAP Rudolph Nissim Award in Hyperborea 2014 for orchestra. The same year he won both first prize and the audience/radio- listener’s prize at the Uppsala composer competition for And all the trees of the field will clap their hands for chamber orchestra, and his true-crime opera Voir Dire was the winner of the Fort Worth Opera Frontiers showcase for new opera.

Matthew Peterson Net Worth

Matthew Peterson is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Matthew Peterson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Peterson’s first opera, The Binding of Isaac, is a modern retelling of the Biblical story of Abraham, set in a religious-fundamentalist compound. Peterson collaborated with Jason Zencka, the librettist. It was premiered at St. Olaf College, 2006 and won the 2007 BMI Student Composer Award.

Peterson, a freelance composer from Sweden, was first awarded a Fulbright in 2008. The true-crime chamber opera Voir Dire was Peterson’s Fulbright project. It received high praise after its 2017 premiere at Fort Worth Opera. He is a member of FST, the Association of Swedish Composers, and has been commissioned to perform by Swedish musicians and ensembles, including Marten Falk, Gustaf Sjokvist Chamber Choir and Uppsala Vokalensemble. His music has been played at international music festivals such as Svensk Musikvar (South Africa), Purpur (South Africa), Jubilate, Jubilate, and Sound of Stockholm.

The courtroom opera Voir Dire is adapted from true-crime stories witnessed by librettist Jason Zencka while he was court reporter for the Stevens Point Journal. The 2017 world premiere production by Fort Worth Opera received national critical acclaim. Opera Now called Voir Dire “startlingly immediate and journalistic in feel, made memorable by the depth and texture of the music.” Heidi Waleson, in her review for The Wall Street Journal, wrote: “The opera drills unsentimentally into the tragedies of ordinary people…its power lies in how believable their emotions are.”

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