Matthew Ricketts is a Canadian composer currently based in NYC. Matthew’s music has been called “lyrical, contrapuntal, rhythmically complex and highly nuanced” (The American Academy of Arts and Letters) and is noted for his “effervescent and at times prickly sounds,” “hypnotically churning exploration of melody” (ICareIfYouListen) as well as its “tart harmonies and perky sputterings” (The New York Times). He is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, in addition to receiving fellowships, grants and residencies from the Fromm Music Foundation (2024), NYSCA (2024), Bogliasco Foundation (2023), Millay (2022), Civitella Ranieri (2021) and MacDowell (2019; 2022). Particularly drawn to collaborative endeavors, Matthew has worked on a wide range of interdisciplinary projects, including scoring the feature film Glob Lessons (2021 Tribeca Film Festival official selection), dance projects with choreographers Michael Spencer Philips (Site-Specific Dances), Brendan Drake and Jennifer Nichols, and a variety of vocal/opera/musical-theater projects with writers Mark Campbell, Royce Vavrek, Mark Wunderlich, Alain Farah and Tomson Highway. He is on faculty at the Manhattan School of Music and the Special Music School (NYC).