Matthew Hetz is a native to Los Angeles, where he still resides. He began piano lessons at age sixteen. His teachers were Robert Obsorne, Lena Nielsen (West Los Angeles College), and of great influence and importance - Howard Weisel (West Los Angeles College) 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, string orchestra, 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.
He 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.
Matthew Hetz devotes himself to environmental causes, and is mass transit advocate.
Hetz is extremely grateful to Parma Records for his recording of his “Sarajevo Cellist” with Anna Kislitsyna, piano and Ovidiu Marinescu, cello.
Hetz has works for solo instruments, songs, chorus, chamber ensembles, string orchestra, 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.
He 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.
Matthew Hetz devotes himself to environmental causes, and is mass transit advocate.
Hetz is extremely grateful to Parma Records for his recording of his “Sarajevo Cellist” with Anna Kislitsyna, piano and Ovidiu Marinescu, cello.
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