As a composer and lyricist, Dmitri Matheny has published works spanning the jazz, pop, symphonic, choral, chamber and world music genres. He has received premieres and commissions from Meet the Composer, the Manhattan New Music Project, the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Bay Area Jazz Composers Orchestra and 20th Century Forum.
Matheny has released nine critically-acclaimed CDs showcasing his original compositions for small jazz ensemble. Among his other significant works are "Fresh Squeezed Brass" (for brass quintet), "Nocturne" (for jazz band + string quartet), "The SnowCat" (for musical theatre), "Triptych" and "South of Market Suite" (for chamber orchestra), and "Drums & Color," "The City at Night" and "Savannah Panorama" (for jazz orchestra). Matheny’s film scoring and soundtrack credits include the PBS documentary Mary, Paradox & Grace (1996), the short film Greenhorn Creek (1997), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art production Voices & Images of California Art (1997), and the RKO Pictures feature film Shade (2003), Damian Nieman’s modern noir starring Gabriel Byrne, Jamie Foxx, Melanie Griffith, Thandie Newton, Sylvester Stallone and Stewart Townsend. In 2006 Matheny contributed music for the Cannes Film Festival premiere of a short film from the horror anthology Trapped Ashes. Matheny's most ambitious creation to date is "Spiritu Sancto," the New Millennium Mass, a monumental sacred work scored for chorus, organ, percussion, brass quintet, jazz ensemble and gospel soloist. Spiritu Sancto received its world premiere on the dawn of the new millennium at St. Domenic's Cathedral in San Francisco. |
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Blue Nostalgia (1989) — for voice and jazz orchestra. |
Sagebrush Rebellion (2010) — for small jazz ensemble. |
