COMPOSER | CONDUCTOR
MATTHEW RECIO
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About
Avid vocal composer Matthew Recio is thrilled to be joining the Chicago Opera Theater as their Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer for the upcoming season. He currently holds the position as composer in residence at the Luzerne Music Center, one of the leading summer preparatory orchestral training programs for pre-collegiate musicians.
"For me, writing is a direct reflection of what I observe in society & the world."
Recio is a humble winner of the Cincinnati Camerata Competition, two-time winner of the NOTUS Composition Competition, finalist in the Young New Yorker’s Choral Competition, and a finalist in the Morton Gould Awards and BMI Awards. William Stowman's CD, A Timeless Place (Klavier Records Label) features Recio's song cycle Chronology of Storms, with poetry written by Jenna Lanzaro.
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With equal passion for instrumental composition, Recio has been represented at the Midwest Composer Symposium, the UNK Music Festival and the Hammer and Nail Dance collaboration. His chamber works received recognition at the IMTA young artist composition competition and the Quartet Nouveau Competition. Recio is a proud alumnus of the IMANI Festival, the Atlantic Music Festival, Valencia International Performing Arts Program, Norfolk Chamber Series and Donald Nally’s Grammy award winning choir, “The Crossing”.
In addition to his work with COT and LMC he was selected as the first commissioned composer for the CincinnatiSong Initiative 2018-2019 season. He is a published artist under the Dale Warland Series under G.Schirmer/Hal Leonard. As the 2018 Georgina Joshi vocal prize commission winner, Recio received a premiere of his work “In the Desert” for mezzo-soprano and sinfonietta with the Indiana University New Music Ensemble. Recio was recently named the 2017 American Prize winner in choral composition and was a featured composer with Beth Morrison Projects as an operatic composer at the National Sawdust theatre in Brooklyn, New York. The New Voices Opera Company commissioned him for his one-act opera, “In Memoriam” in 2017 (Libretto: Molly Korroch).
A summa cum laude graduate and Charles F. Hockett Scholarship winner of Ithaca College (B.M. Composition),
Composition), Recio is completing his Doctorate in music composition at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music as a Jacobs fellowship recipient and associate instructor in aural skills. His principal teachers include Dana Wilson, Claude Baker, Aaron Travers, Don Freund, David Dzubay, Eric Ewazen, P.Q. Phan and Sven-David Sandström.
Read Matthew's "Composer Spotlight" interview from the Imani Winds Festival on his music & compositional style.
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2009
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Body, remember
bass-baritone & violin
~4.30
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chamber opera
~40.00
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Echo
SSAATTBB choir
~5.00
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SSATBB choir
~5.00
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SSATB choir
~4.30
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Tales of Imagination
I. James & the Giant Peach
III. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
soprano & piano
~8.00
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Chronology of Storms
I. Hurricane A-Comin'
II. The Shell Collector
III. Circles
bass, trumpet, piano
~11.00
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SSAATTBB choir, flute
~5.30
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soprano & piano
~4.30
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SATB choir, piano, oboe
~5.00
Game of Characters
I. Ramsay
II. Sansa
III. Melisandre
violin, viola, cello, bass, harp, piano, percussion
~9.00
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Felt
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, harp, percussion
~5.00
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Memories
flute, clarinet, trombone, percussion, viola
~5.00
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Clutch of Venus
I. Velvet Teeth
II. Lull & Lure
string quartet
~10.00
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flute, clarinet, trombone, violin, percussion
~11.15
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Locked
I. Internal
II. External
marimba
~7.00
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clarinet in b-flat
~5.30
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I. Lamplit Shuffle
II. Reflection in the Ripples
III. Submerged As One
trumpet in b-flat (flugelhorn)
~12.00
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Italian Visions
I. Florence of Antiquity and Earth
II. Pompeii in Dust
III. Roman Skylines
trumpet and piano
~11.15
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Revelations
I. Starvation and Thirst
II. Isolation
III. Hallucination and Enlightenment
wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, french horn)
~9.00
Waiting
I. Impatiently
II. Footsteps
III. In Darkness
flute & marimba
~11.00
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Canvas Sketches
I. Texture
II. Value
III. Space
IV. Line
V. Color
flute/piccolo, oboe/english horn/, clarinet, bass clarinet, violins 1& 2, viola, cello
~13.00
I. Instar
II. Cocoon
III. Taking flight
flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
~7.00
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flute, cello, piano
~4.50
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violin & piano
~5.30
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Qualms
II. Rebirth
alto saxophone & piano
~11.00
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2011
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MATTHEW RECIO, COMPOSER
Works
For a full list of Matthew's works, as well as links to audio & video recordings, select a category below.
Watch performances of Matthew's works below.
Media
2017
IN
MEMORIAM
GAME OF CHARACTERS
2015
2015
2014
Watch performances of Matthew's works below.
Media
2017
STATUES IN LONDON
I. HE KISSED TO SLEEP
II. HE CAST HIS WRATHED EYES
III. I WALK THE COOL ROOMS
To purchase a work, or for commissions, private instruction, clinics, & questions, please use the contact form below.
CONTACT
Matthew is currently based out of Chicago, Illinois.