Matthew Riley Music

Matthew Riley (b. 1982) is an award-winning composer and arranger based in Minneapolis, MN. His wide body of work includes original compositions for radio and TV commercials, charts and orchestrations for TV shows (including NBC’s The Voice), scores for multiple documentary films, and hundreds of arrangements and orchestrations of songs for churches and recording artists. Among his accomplishments are several pieces featured on JW Pepper’s Editor’s Choice list, as well as various festival lists. In 2019 he won the SMP Press Composition Competition in two categories.

His pop-classical arrangements and compositions see thousands of performances per year by orchestras on six continents, and have been enjoyed in theaters, churches, and schools. Riley’s music was featured at Madison Square Garden for two concerts in Andrea Bocelli’s 2019 Christmas tour. Other notable performances have been by Italy’s RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Imperial Philharmonics, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, The Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka, US Marine Band, Canadian Royal 22nd Regiment Band, and the Colorado Symphony.