Matthew D. Nielsen

Bio

Matthew D. Nielsen (b. 1984) is an active composer, conductor, baritone, author, and producer. He has conducted performances in venues such as St. John’s Smith Square, the Cathedral of the Madeleine, Norwich Cathedral, and St. Giles-in-the-Fields. Matthew is the founder and director of Brevitas, a professional chamber choir in Salt Lake City.

As a composer, he has received commissions from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, The Combined Choirs and Philharmonic Orchestra at Brigham Young University, Cantorum Chamber Choir, and St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Plano, Texas. Matthew’s music has been published with Edition Peters, Walton Music, Santa Barbara Music Press and featured internationally on BYU Radio and American Public Media’s Performance Today with Fred Child.

As a professional singer, Matthew has performed with esteemed ensembles such as Seraphic Fire, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Kinnara , Bach Collegium San Diego, and Musica Angelica. As a soloist, he has studied with Karen Anderson and Jennifer Welch-Babidge and performed in Ireland, England, Germany, Ukraine and the United States.

Matthew earned a Bachelor of Music in Sound Recording Technology from Brigham Young University in 2010, and a Masters in Music in Choral Conducting in 2012. In 2017, he completed a Doctorate of Music with an emphasis in choral music from the University of Southern California.