Truly beautiful” - The Washington Post. “Darkly brilliant” - Classical Review. “Gritty, colorful, often profane and clearly true-to-life” - Opera News. Composer Matthew Peterson is a musical adventurer of great breadth and deep sensitivity. Here is seriousness, humor, power, tenderness, wilfulness - music that ranges in expression from the grand and sublime to the most fragile and delicate. His music has been commissioned and performed around the world by leading ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir, Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center, The St. Olaf Choir, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.