Matthew Ricketts | |
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| Birth name | Matthew Jonathan Ricketts |
| Born | January 15, 1986 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Genres | Contemporary classical |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Instrument | piano |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Website | www |
Matthew Ricketts (born 1986) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. He is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow[1] as well as the recipient of the 2020 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2016 Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, the 2015 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award, a 2013 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and eight prizes in the SOCAN Foundation's Awards for Young Composers. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.