Matthew T Wang
Adjunct Instructor
Matthew Wang is an award-winning film and television composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist
based in New York and Los Angeles. Merging his background in pop and electronic production with his
field recording-centered approach to sound design, Wang creates inventive scores and soundscapes
in which he strives to replicate human emotion through sound. His versatility has led him to write
music for shows including NBC’s New Amsterdam (2018-2022), The Young Rock (2022), Showtime’s
Yellowjackets (2021-2022), Netflix’s Ginny and Georgia, as well as Shaquille O’Neal’s basketball animated
short HeadNoise (2021). He found his first feature film project in the IFC Midnight thriller, Centigrade (2020),
which he co-composed with Trey Toy, and has gone onto score the television films, RENO! 911 It's
a Wonderful Heist (2022) and RENO! 911: The Hunt for QANON (2021), with Craig Wedren.Aside from
narrative work, the New York City-born artist also worked closely with documentarian Joseph Juhn on
his set of acclaimed films, Jeronimo (2019) and Chosen (2022), which shed light on the unexpected and
untold stories of the Korean diaspora. A graduate of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU’s
Tisch School of the Arts, Wang is currently at work on his debut solo album.