Sample Program

                Quando Sara quell Di?
                Le Dimore, Amor non Ama

                Ad Altro Laccio
                Di Due Bell’Anime

Intermission

                Gott Unergründlich
                Unnatur
                Reimar, der Mensch und der Künstler
                Preislied

                Wahre Liebe
                Der Traum
                Unter der Linde

Matthew Hinsley

Always singing in one form or another, by age six Matthew Hinsley also read music on piano, violin and cello.  He was ten when he began studying classical guitar. For him, the guitar held magical power and determined the direction of his life.  As a high school sophomore, Matthew enrolled at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. This international school was populated not only by students and faculty but often by recruiters from all the major American music conservatories.  He was a student at Interlochen for scarcely three months when the invitation to study at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music arrived, leading him to depart high school two years before he would have graduated.

Active in select choirs, Matthew often sang as a soloist with choir as well as in a variety of musical dramas.  Matthew obtained his Bachelor of Music from Oberlin at age 20, and his Master of Music two years later from the University of Texas at Austin, where he currently pursues a Doctorate of Musical Arts.  In addition to guitar study with such luminaries as Stephen Aron and Adam Holzman, Matthew has been fortunate to study in the voice studios of Richard Miller and William Lewis.  A recipient of numerous performance-based awards, and an active performer, he has given concerts throughout the United States and Italy.  Hinsley has premiered many new works, including compositions by David Ludwig, Johann Othman and Jefferson Rabb.

Matthew has received numerous grants and private support to run concert series of international performing artists as well as extensive community outreach programs.  In 2000 he won the Music Teacher’s National Association, Gibson Collegiate Artist Guitar Competition and won Second Prize in the American String Teacher’s Association National Solo String Competition.  With a strong interest in art history and non-profit art organizations in America, he has published four articles in Soundboard, the international trade journal of the Guitar Foundation of America. About his debut solo CD Live, in Austin, Michael Barnes of the Austin-American Statesman wrote, “Hinsley plays the classical guitar with rare clarity and composure.”  This solo CD as well as his new CD with flutist Jennifer Rhyne, Two Muses, is available at Amazon.com.

“Hinsley plays the classical guitar with rare clarity and composure…”

- Michael Barnes, Austin-American Statesman

“He cradled his classical guitar on his lap and without introduction began to fill the space surrounding us with some of the most beautiful music I’ve heard in a very long time… The Guitar’s strings talked to us… and it was a peaceful, magical moment.”

- Linn Woodard, The Newcastle Weekly