Matt Mason (b. 1994) is a composer, pianist, and educator from Illinois. He holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Music Composition from Butler University. His compositions represent an intersection of poetry, theater, and music creating a psychogramm where melodic, harmonic, and intervallic elements are dictated by tense constellations and brooding undertones. Matt’s current work emphasizes research into dissociation, mental health, queer visibility, nostalgia, and ethics in contemporary performance. Matt’s work has been recently performed in Tokyo as a part of Thomas Piercy’s Moments in this Time Concert, selected as the winner of the Queens New Music Festival Call for Scores, and performed as part of a collective of composers in Suzanne Kessel’s 250 Piano Pieces for Beethoven in Bonn, Germany. As a researcher, he was a featured composer and presenter at the Midwest Graduate Composer Symposium in March of 2020.