Matthew Hetz, a Los Angeles native, has received performances of his compositions Los Angeles, the U.S., and in Europe. This includes Hetz performing his piano works at NACUSA concerts at Hollywood Piano Company, Burbank; and Steinway Piano Gallery, Beverly Hills.
Hetz has been an instructor at Emeritus/Santa Monica College since 2008, and considers the position of continuing inspiration from the students, faculty and administration. Hetz strives to make the classes educational, and enjoyable and entertaining; and part of students’ social and brain health along with learning about music or learning piano. His classes are Music Appreciation; and Piano-Theory/Beginning and Piano-Theory/Intermediate Advanced.
Hetz’s work for cello and piano, “Sarajevo Cello,” was performed in Carnegie Hall after it was featured in PARMA Records 2021 CD, “Moto Eterno,” with Trio Casals. The work was reviewed in Gramophone by Guy Rickards, “Evocation of a very different type occurs in the opening duo for cello and piano, ‘Sarajevo Cellist’ by Matthew Hetz, inspired by the anonymous player who performed in the bomb-laden streets of the Bosnian capital in the 1990s. Its driving momentum is gripping, making it all the more maddening that only the first movement is recorded here.,,,” and in Jazz Mania, “,,,this fifth Moto in a series features a dozen tracks with very varied tempos and climates. It opens with the magnificent "Sarajevo Cellist" by a certain Matthew Hetz who is unknown to me.”
Hetz’s “Concerto for Flute, Celesta and Chamber Orchestra” was recorded by PARMA Records in the Czech Republic in and released in 2023.
Various works of Matthew Hetz can be found at matthewhetz.com