User:Hutch1978
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Matt Hutchinson (born July 26, 1978) is a composer for film, television, and commercials and is currently based out of Seattle, Washington.
Matt Hutchinson has been writing and playing music since the age of five, acquiring his first guitar from his grandfather. By age six Matt had written and recorded his first song on a small cassette recorder and tried to get it played on a local radio station. With this kind of drive and creativity, it's not surprising that Matt is still writing and recording music today.
After receiving a degree in audio engineering in 1996, Matt began his career in audio post-production at one of the top commercial facilities in Seattle. During this time, Matt nurtured his musical aspirations by playing in rock bands. However, his interests in other genres of music, coupled with his knowledge of post-production drew him to the world of film scoring and commercial music.
Matt began privately studying music composition, theory, and orchestration, and joined the Seattle Composers Alliance in the fall of 2001. Through the SCA, Matt came into contact with student filmmakers and began scoring films. It was also through the SCA that Matt met Hollywood film-composer Hummie Mann, founder of the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program. Matt enrolled in the program and in 2005 wrote, orchestrated, and recorded over four minutes of film music for a full 35-piece orchestra.
In addition to scoring films, Matt also composes music for commercial projects. He has provided sound design and music composition services for clients such as TNT, The Weather Channel, Hershey's, and Miller Lite. Matt recently won a national Telly Award for his work on the TV promo for the TNT miniseries, "The Grid". He also recently scored "Maiden of Death", a movie trailer created as an entry into the Grindhouse Trailer Contest. Created by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, the competition culminated with a special screening at the South by Southwest Film Festival, with "Maiden of Death" finishing as a top three finalist. To date, Matt has written music in a wide variety of genres including rock, orchestral, ambient, film noir and electronic.
