Matthew Pierce is an American Composer and Producer whose flagship opuses have established a permanent footprint in the international ballet repertoire. Celebrated for synthesizing rigorous contrapuntal architecture with driving rhythmic engines, his works have been staged by major dance and theatrical institutions across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Pierce’s score for Alice (in wonderland), commissioned by the Washington Ballet, has been produced by 13 companies in over 100 performances, with The Washington Post praising his "visionary result... a shimmering landscape that weaves together contemporary edge, spirit of discovery, and wonder." In 2019, Pierce was nominated for the prestigious Prix Benois de la Danse at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow for his full-length score to The Wizard of Oz, a major co-commission by Kansas City Ballet, Colorado Ballet, and Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

His international reach includes performances at the Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier and the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden (for the San Francisco Ballet production of Night), alongside major commissions for Houston Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. Formally trained in violin performance at the Peabody Conservatory under Shirley Givens, Pierce later completed an intensive six-year apprenticeship in historical counterpoint and thoroughbass.

Pierce focuses exclusively on composing and producing major theatrical monuments. He is currently writing and producing a multi-act score, a Bluegrass Opera, which exhumes the 1948 Tennessee Valley Authority reservoir flooding of Old Butler and Piercetown, Tennessee, fusing contrapuntal thoroughbass with open 5-string clawhammer banjo. Pierce shares a home and studio in East Northport, NY, with ballet costume designer Christine Darch.