Matthew Hetz is a contemporary California composer.
A native of Los Angeles, he began piano lessons at age sixteen. His teachers were Robert Obsorne, Lena Nielsen (West Los Angeles College), and of great influence and imporantce, Howard Weisel and Marlene Kendall, both of whom were students of the eminent Jakob Gimpbel. Hetz began playing the violin at age twenty-three and is largely self-taught.
Hetz has works for solo instruments, songs, chorus, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra, and a chamber opera
His works have been performed nationally, and recently his “Elegy for the Victims and Survivors of School Shootings,” was performed by Parma Records’ virtual concert, MOTO VITRUO II, by Cellist Ovidiu Marinescu. Some of his solo chamber works are on-line.
Hetz is an instructor at Emeritus/Santa Monica College. He was the president/executive director of the Culver City Symphony Orchestra and Marina del Rey Symphony for sixteen years, and was in the Orchestras’ 2nd Violin Section. He was also a member of the West Los Angeles College Chamber Orchestra and the Dominguez Hills/Carson Symphony.
He devotes hims himself to the causes of environmental and mass transit advocate.
Hetz is extremely grateful to Parma Records for his upcoming recording of his “Sarajevo Cellist” with Anna Kislitsyna, piano and Ovidiu Marinescu, cello.
A native of Los Angeles, he began piano lessons at age sixteen. His teachers were Robert Obsorne, Lena Nielsen (West Los Angeles College), and of great influence and imporantce, Howard Weisel and Marlene Kendall, both of whom were students of the eminent Jakob Gimpbel. Hetz began playing the violin at age twenty-three and is largely self-taught.
Hetz has works for solo instruments, songs, chorus, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra, and a chamber opera
His works have been performed nationally, and recently his “Elegy for the Victims and Survivors of School Shootings,” was performed by Parma Records’ virtual concert, MOTO VITRUO II, by Cellist Ovidiu Marinescu. Some of his solo chamber works are on-line.
Hetz is an instructor at Emeritus/Santa Monica College. He was the president/executive director of the Culver City Symphony Orchestra and Marina del Rey Symphony for sixteen years, and was in the Orchestras’ 2nd Violin Section. He was also a member of the West Los Angeles College Chamber Orchestra and the Dominguez Hills/Carson Symphony.
He devotes hims himself to the causes of environmental and mass transit advocate.
Hetz is extremely grateful to Parma Records for his upcoming recording of his “Sarajevo Cellist” with Anna Kislitsyna, piano and Ovidiu Marinescu, cello.