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 “Truly beautiful” - The Washington Post
“Startlingly immediate” - Wall Street Journal
 “Darkly brilliant” - Classical Review
 “Gritty, colorful, often profane and clearly true-to-life” - Opera News

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Upcoming PERFORMANCES
Dimridåer & Villospår - Stockholm
Dimridåer & Villospår - Stockholm
Dimridåer & Villospår - Stockholm
Dimridåer & Villospår - Stockholm
Dimridåer & Villospår - Stockholm
Dimridåer & Villospår - Stockholm
Dalasinfoniettan - Rättvik

Musicians from Dalasinfoniettan perform chamber works by Matthew Peterson

Dalasinfoniettan - Falun

Musicians from Dalasinfoniettan perform chamber works by Matthew Peterson

Dalasinfoniettan - Fors

Musicians from Dalasinfoniettan perform chamber works by Matthew Peterson

Dalasinfoniettan - Älvdalen
RECENT PERFORMANCES
Carolinae Röster - Lund Choral Festival
Stockholm Saxophone Quartet & Stockholm Cathedral Singers
Jag känner alltså finns jag - Stockholm
Jag känner alltså finns jag - Stockholm
Jag känner alltså finns jag - Stockholm
Jag känner alltså finns jag - Stockholm
Jag känner alltså finns jag - Stockholm
Jag känner alltså finns jag - Stockholm
Dalasinfoniettan - VAGABOND (world premiere)
Dalasinfoniettan - VAGABOND (world premiere)
Theo Hillborg, Lövstabruk Kammarmusikfestival - world premiere
Theo Hillborg, Lövstabruk Kammarmusikfestival - world premiere
Seminar - "Text and Texture in Choral Composition"
Ben Goldscheider Trio - Ronneby
Ben Goldscheider Trio - Sandviken
Ben Goldscheider Trio - Ljusdal
Ensemble NEO - Folkoperan, Stockholm
Ben Goldscheider Trio - Hudiksvall
Ben Goldscheider Trio - Halmstad
Ben Goldscheider Trio - Hässleholm
Stockholms Saxofonkvartett - Visby
Stockholms Saxofonkvartett - Duvbo Kyrka
VOIR DIRE - Boston Conservatory at Berklee
VOIR DIRE - Boston Conservatory at Berklee
An Inner Sky - Oslo
VOIR DIRE - Boston Conservatory at Berklee
VOIR DIRE - Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Sentio Ergo Sum - Uppsala
Sentio Ergo Sum - Uppsala
Sentio Ergo Sum - Uppsala
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Matthew Peterson interview in Nordic Highlights
Matthew Peterson wins 2023 Swedish MPA Award / Musikförläggarnas Pris
Matthew Peterson wins 2023 Swedish MPA Award / Musikförläggarnas Pris
Matthew Peterson awarded prestigious Carin Malmlöf-Forssling composer prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
Matthew Peterson awarded prestigious Carin Malmlöf-Forssling composer prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
Matthew Peterson awarded first Sven-David Sandström Choral Composition Award
Matthew Peterson awarded first Sven-David Sandström Choral Composition Award
Matthew Peterson wins Classical of the Year, Dalecarlia Music Awards
Matthew Peterson wins Classical of the Year, Dalecarlia Music Awards
Sofia Ågren on Matthew Peterson's Ljusfälten: #Swedishchoralmusic 2020
RAVE REVIEWS & VOIR DIRE WORLD RELEASE
RAVE REVIEWS & VOIR DIRE WORLD RELEASE
Voir Dire original-cast album Americas Release
Voir Dire original-cast album Americas Release
BroadwayWorld: Redhouse to release VOIR DIRE August 7 2020
BroadwayWorld: Redhouse to release VOIR DIRE August 7 2020
"Classical of the year" nomination for 2020 Dalecarlia Music Awards
"Classical of the year" nomination for 2020 Dalecarlia Music Awards
Interview with Dalarnas Tidningar
Interview with Dalarnas Tidningar
Interview on 1 Track Podcast
Interview on 1 Track Podcast
Kulturrådet funds Matthew Peterson commission
Kulturrådet funds Matthew Peterson commission
Review: Peregrinations, Södermanlands Nyheter
Peterson wins Washington International Competition
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Voir Dire Review: True Crime in the Opera House

The Wall Street Journal Review

THEATERJONESTruth Be Told

TheaterJones Review

THE COLUMN Voir Dire - a review

The Column Review

FORT WORTH WEEKLY Just the System

Fort Worth Weekly Review

TEXAS CLASSICAL REVIEW Fort Worth Opera premiere makes the case for darkly brilliant Voir Dire

Texas Classical Review

THE STAR TELEGRAM FW Opera’s Voir Dire tries to do justice to crime-and-punishment tales

The Star Telegram Review

DALLAS NEWS Courtroom dramas, and damaged lives, vividly portrayed in Fort Worth Opera's new Voir Dire

Dallas News Review

FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM Journalist’s case notes get a musical score in Fort Worth Opera’s Voir Dire

Fort Worth Star Telegram Interview

THE STAR TELEGRAM Case closed: Voir Dire sells out ahead of Fort Worth Opera Festival

The Star Telegram Interview

WRR 101.1 Voir Dire - an interview with David Gately, director, Viswa Subbaraman, conductor and Christina Pecce, soprano

WRR 1011 Interview

CLASSICAL VOICE AMERICATrio Of 20-minute Operas Premiered In WNO Showcase

Classical Voice America Review

THE WASHINGTON POSTOpera as lively art - or not so lively

Washington Post Review

Voir Dire premiere mentioned on NPR's "First Impressions"
BROADWAY WORLDWashington National Opera commissions Lifeboat
Fort Worth Business News Broadway WorldFort Worth Opera to stage Voir Dire in 2017 Frontiers Festival

Fort Worth Business News Review
Broadway World Review

RECENT PHOTOS

We got an early start on November with our best small water decoy hunt yet (here in Sweden) with @karllarsson @gkkarlsson. Due to unexpectedly low winds we made some tweaks to the spread and were rewarded with migrating wigeon and mallards dropping o
Tack @stockholmsaxophonequartet @johan.hammarstrom.102 och @stockholms_domkyrkokor för konserten och en vacker framförande av In the Beginning. Beautiful sound, beautiful cathedral, good company @composernelson #composer #choir
After the excitement of the Vagabond world premiere I dove back into my life’s other passion, hunting and the outdoors. With ten days in the woods our moose hunting team has had good success; freezers are full. In between moose hunts, Karl and
A very special and intense week, my first as composer-in-residence, comes to an end as @dalasinfoniettan and Claire Levacher brought VAGABOND to life for the first - but not last - times. I got to share the premieres with my family and many friends.

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“Unrelenting drama, variously tragic, violent and ineffably sad.” - Dallas Morning News
 “An absorbing atmosphere, a hypnotic, mystical soundscape” - St Paul Pioneer Press