Matthew Hodge (b. 2008) is a classical composer, pianist, and violist in Roseland, Virginia. With the encouragement of his mother, a professional oboist, he started composing when he was nine years old and was immediately enthralled by it. Since then, Matthew has been awarded for his compositions as a finalist in the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Composition Competition (USA), Junior Division in 2023 and for the 2026 Brevard Performance Prize for members of the 2025 Brevard Music Center Composition Institute, the winner of the Young Talent Award and an Honorable Mention in the Classic Pure Vienna International Composition Competition, High School Division in 2022, and the first place winner of the Music Teacher’s Gifts’ 10th and 12th Annual Youth Composition Competitions (international) in 2023, '25, and '26 and of the Wednesday Music Club (WMC) Composition Competition (Charlottesville, Virginia) in 2022, ‘24, and '26, among others.

For his compositions, Matthew, in addition to his first commission, was given the opportunity to have a composition published when he was fourteen years old. Matthew has since been commissioned by various musicians across the country, most notably by cellist Miriam K. Smith who premiered his Hommage à Kodály for unaccompanied cello in 2025 and by Nick May as the youngest participant of the I Exist Project. He has had his music performed in various prestigious venues and institutions  including the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in 2024 and '25 and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY in 2025. He is currently writing a song cycle in collaboration with 2025-26 National Youth Poet Laureate Evan Wang for soprano Staley Clark.

His compositions have been described as having “beautiful builds and decays” and “a beautiful atmosphere” (MTNA). An important aspect of composing music to Matthew is to make it simultaneously emotionally impactful and academically interesting. Matthew has previously studied composition with Sheridan Seyfried and Richard Danielpour. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in composition at The Juilliard School, where he studies with Valerie Coleman.