Winning composition: “Where Does Your Body End”

About Ben

Ben Matney is a composer and songwriter who has worked across a wide range of genres and stylistic mediums. His music is characterized by its immersive quality, relishing evocative texture and beveled dissonance as well as melodic lyricism.

Matney’s work has been performed by renowned ensembles such as earspace, Red Pine Wind Quintet, Sounding Board, Khemia, and the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra. He has also written as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians. Matney is based in Raleigh, NC.

His home site is benmatneycomposer.com. Some of solo work can also be found on bandcamp (https://benmatney.bandcamp.com/album/the-fold) and soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/benmatney)