Biography
Matt Johnson trained classically as a pianist and composer before building a reputation through contemporary instrumental releases. He established Dolce & Nuit Productions, the company handling his publishing and production, and first drew notice with the 1986 debut album A Quiet Moment. While maintaining activity as a teacher, musical director, and composer, Johnson has issued successive themed instrumental collections such as 1995’s End of a Day, 2014’s The New Silent Night, and 2019’s Every Time I Feel the Spirit.
Born in Sherman, Texas, in 1961, he began piano lessons at age six and performed regularly in church settings. During his teenage years he already displayed exceptional skill and began writing original material. After completing high school he received a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Oklahoma Baptist University, then earned a Master of Music in Composition and Jazz Studies with a Distinction in Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, studying under pianist Seymour Lipkin and composer William Thomas McKinley. While enrolled at the conservatory he started presenting his own compositions publicly. In 1985 he launched Dolce & Nuit Productions, naming the firm after his cats, and began issuing his musical works. His first solo album of original instrumental music, A Quiet Moment, appeared in 1986; its reception prompted the follow-up Something About the Moon three years later. Additional releases arrived soon afterward, among them 1992’s Conversations and two 1995 projects, End of a Day and Winter on the Common.
A certified music instructor, Johnson has offered private lessons continuously since 1977 and has held faculty appointments at the Performing Arts School in Worcester, Massachusetts; North Shore Community College in Lynn, Massachusetts; and Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He has also acted as Director of Music at several churches and served as a musical engraver, arranger, and editor for publishing firms including Great Commissions Publications, Crown & Covenant, FJH Music, and Lifeway Christian Resources.
Johnson’s professional efforts have centered on recording, performing, and publishing his own compositions and arrangements. He has created works for solo piano, orchestra, vocal and handbell choirs, vocalists, and jazz ensembles. Selections of his music have appeared in film and television productions such as Hard Copy, the 1990 public-service announcement Don’t Be a Litterbug!, and the 2007 drama Out of Balance. He has further licensed material to background-music services including Muzak, 3M, AEI Music, and Sirius Satellite Radio.
In 2010 Johnson resumed issuing original recordings with the eight-volume Matthew’s Yoga Music series and the spiritually oriented Reflections on…The Proverbs of Solomon. The holiday album The New Silent Night followed in 2014, with O Holy Night arriving the next year. He subsequently produced additional spiritually themed collections drawing on biblical figures such as Noah and Luke. Several more albums appeared in 2019, among them Surrender, New Life, and Every Time I Feel the Spirit. Instrumental releases continued in 2020 with Hot Cup of Tea, Broadway, We Gather Together, Come, Ye Thankful People, Come, and My Own Compass.
Born in Sherman, Texas, in 1961, he began piano lessons at age six and performed regularly in church settings. During his teenage years he already displayed exceptional skill and began writing original material. After completing high school he received a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Oklahoma Baptist University, then earned a Master of Music in Composition and Jazz Studies with a Distinction in Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, studying under pianist Seymour Lipkin and composer William Thomas McKinley. While enrolled at the conservatory he started presenting his own compositions publicly. In 1985 he launched Dolce & Nuit Productions, naming the firm after his cats, and began issuing his musical works. His first solo album of original instrumental music, A Quiet Moment, appeared in 1986; its reception prompted the follow-up Something About the Moon three years later. Additional releases arrived soon afterward, among them 1992’s Conversations and two 1995 projects, End of a Day and Winter on the Common.
A certified music instructor, Johnson has offered private lessons continuously since 1977 and has held faculty appointments at the Performing Arts School in Worcester, Massachusetts; North Shore Community College in Lynn, Massachusetts; and Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He has also acted as Director of Music at several churches and served as a musical engraver, arranger, and editor for publishing firms including Great Commissions Publications, Crown & Covenant, FJH Music, and Lifeway Christian Resources.
Johnson’s professional efforts have centered on recording, performing, and publishing his own compositions and arrangements. He has created works for solo piano, orchestra, vocal and handbell choirs, vocalists, and jazz ensembles. Selections of his music have appeared in film and television productions such as Hard Copy, the 1990 public-service announcement Don’t Be a Litterbug!, and the 2007 drama Out of Balance. He has further licensed material to background-music services including Muzak, 3M, AEI Music, and Sirius Satellite Radio.
In 2010 Johnson resumed issuing original recordings with the eight-volume Matthew’s Yoga Music series and the spiritually oriented Reflections on…The Proverbs of Solomon. The holiday album The New Silent Night followed in 2014, with O Holy Night arriving the next year. He subsequently produced additional spiritually themed collections drawing on biblical figures such as Noah and Luke. Several more albums appeared in 2019, among them Surrender, New Life, and Every Time I Feel the Spirit. Instrumental releases continued in 2020 with Hot Cup of Tea, Broadway, We Gather Together, Come, Ye Thankful People, Come, and My Own Compass.
Albums

Singles Mingled
2025

Nothing's as It Seems
2025

Get It Right
2025

Cinnamon Lizards
2024

At PizzaExpress Live - In London
2023

Get Right
2022

Loving by Letting Go
2022

Melrose Overture
2021

Love in Albania
2021

A Baker's Dozen: The Handbell Works of Matt Johnson
2021

Brells
2021

Strange Pulling
2021

The First Noel
2021

Laughed
2021

For You My Soul Waits: Soaking Music for Time in the Presence of God
2020

Handbell Processional
2020

Opus Español
2020

Lna
2020

Noel Trilogy
2020

Do You Hear What I Hear?
2020

Adam's Theme
2020

World Communion Handbells
2020

Slow Build
2020

She Didn't Mean To
2020

Night in a Manger
2020

A Quiet Moment (Remastered)
2020

Echoes…Before They Fade
2020

Sitting Beside You
2020

My Own Compass
2020

Elusive Island of Gone
2020

End of a Day (Remastered)
2020

Origins (Remastered)
2020

Shipwreck
2020

Something About the Moon (Remastered)
2020

Conversations (Remastered)
2020

Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
2020

We Gather Together
2020

Broadway
2020

Ode to Beth
2020

Hot Cup of Tea
2020

Silent Night
2019

Christmas Stripped
2019

Choctaw
2019

Christmas Carol Medley: The First Noel / Away in a Manger / O Little Town of Bethlehem / It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
2019

Every Time I Feel the Spirit
2019

Early Reflections
2019

Opening
2019

New Life
2019

Chopstix
2019

We Have Toys out Here
2019

Surrender
2019

Acoustic Cover Hits, Vol. 1
2018

Luke's Theme
2018

Acoustic Favourites
2017

Get Over You
2016

Acoustic Hits, Vol. 4
2016

Acoustic Hits, Vol. 3
2016

Noah's Theme
2015

O Holy Night
2015

Acoustic Hits, Vol. 2
2014

The New Silent Night
2014

Reflections on…The Proverbs of Solomon
2010

Just the Music™ from 'Reflections on…The Proverbs of Solomon'
2010

Matthew's Yoga Music, Vol. 2
2010

Matthew's Yoga Music, Vol. 3
2010

Matthew's Yoga Music, Vol. 1
2010

Matthew's Yoga Music, Vol. 5
2010

Matthew's Yoga Music, Vol. 4
2010

Matthew's Yoga Music, Vol. 6
2010

Matthew's Yoga Music, Vol. 7
2010

Matthew's Yoga Music, Vol. 8
2010

Cagefighter
2009

Horizon Line
2005

Line of sight
2003

Origins
2000

End Of A Day
1995

Conversations
1991

Something About the Moon
1989

A Quiet Moment
1986
Singles

Let There Be Love
2024

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
2023

Green Green Grass
2023

My Christmas Tree
2022

beautifully designed
2022

The Way You Look Tonight
2022

Someone Like You
2022

L-O-V-E
2022

Fly Me to the Moon
2022

Can't Help Falling in Love
2022

Deck the Halls
2021

Somewhere In My Memory
2021

We Wish You a Merry Christmas
2021

Wonderful Tonight
2021

Still In Love With You
2021

Snow Child
2021

Levitating
2021

Supalonely
2020

Break My Heart
2020

Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
2020

Mr Brightside
2020

Dance Monkey
2020

Run Rudolph Run
2019

Let It Snow
2019

Jingle Bells
2019

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
2019

Jingle Bell Rock
2019

Liar
2019

Something About the Way You Look Tonight
2019

I Don't Care
2019

Just You and I
2019

What a Time
2019

Lie to Me
2019

Polaroid
2019

Yesterday
2018

Shotgun
2018

Girls Like You
2018

Let Me
2018

This Is Me
2018

FRIENDS
2018

Don't Look Back in Anger
2018

I Will Survive
2018

IDGAF
2018

I Miss You
2017

Wolves
2017

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Piano Acoustic)
2017

Just Like You
2017

Too Much to Ask (Acoustic)
2017

Silence (Acoustic Unplugged)
2017

Havana (Acoustic)
2017

Friends
2017

Slow Hands
2017

Crying in the Club
2017

Mama
2017

Ring of Fire (Acoustic)
2017

Don't Matter Now
2017

Stand By Me
2017

There for You
2017

Strip That Down
2017

Blueberry Hill
2017

Stay
2017

Warplane
2017

Perfect
2017

Something Just Like This
2017

Issues (Acoustic Unplugged)
2017

One Day Like This
2017

Starman
2017

Never Give Up
2017

Acoustic Legends, Vol. 1
2016

Brown Eyed Girl (Acoustic Version)
2016

Get Over You
2016

Get Over You (Acoustic Version)
2016

Shut Up and Dance (Acoustic Live Lounge)
2016

Tenerife Sea (Acoustic Live Lounge)
2016

Forever Young (Piano Version)
2015

All I Want for Christmas Is You (Piano Ballad Version)
2015

Hello
2015

Hello (Piano Cinematic)
2015

Writing's On the Wall
2015

Photograph
2015

Love Me Like You Do
2015

Beautiful in White
2015

You and Me
2015

Hold My Hand
2015

Cheerleader
2015

FourFiveSeconds
2015

Hold Back the River
2015

King
2015

Little Things vs. Night Changes
2015

Love Runs Out vs. Counting Stars
2015

A Sky Full of Stars
2015

Complete
2015

Uptown Funk
2015

Blame vs. Love Me Again
2015

Lost
2014

Thinking Out Loud
2014

Rude
2014

Rest of My Life
2014

Me and My Broken Heart
2014

Radioactive
2014

Whispers (Acoustic Version)
2014

Since I Saw You Last
2014

Stay With Me
2014

Pompeii
2014

All of Me
2014

Livin' On a Prayer
2014

Baby
2014

Last Night
2014

Demons
2014

Rather Be
2014

Magic
2014

Dark Horse
2014

Let Her Go
2014

Grow Old With Me
2014

Bonfire Heart
2014

Happy
2014

Royals
2013

Blurred Lines
2013

Story of My Life
2013

Burn
2013

Things We Lost in the Fire
2013

Wake Me Up
2013

La La La
2013
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