Matthew Fossa

Matthew "Matt" Fossa is a an oboist in the Pensacola Symphonic Orchestra and the Northwest Florida Symphony.

Early life
The music that Fatman had written for Wing Commander I and Wing Commander II was a huge influence on Matt's composing, he used to take his obo and play them as well as on english horn.

Work at CIG
Around Episode 2 or 3 or Wingman's Hangar Matthew Fossa realized he had an opportunity to perhaps write theme music for the show as the show was taking contributions from the fans such as the show's logo.

At the time he was playing in the Barber of Seville opera however it didn't feature much obo which left Matt with spare time during which he could write music.

CIG was interested by his proposition, however eventually Matt wrote a full blown orchestra using classical forms and created a 5 minutes long symphonic ouverture called "The Heroic Flight" which CIG still decided to use and featured on episode 5, and around episode 15 it was used as beginning and ending music. Eventually to make the show start faster it was only used at the ending.

He became friends with Pedro Macedo Camacho and told him that if there were any obo parts he'd be happy to check them out to contribute, to which Pedro responded that he would love to have him play a solo on the soundtrack, which is what players hear when they spawn at Port Olisar and there isn't any crazy activity around.

Community work
He's the scoring composer for an audio drama called Star Citizen Amarok Rising.

He composed the soundtrack for fat girl Star Citizen Addict Anonymous show.

He composed music for the Grievance Star Citizen Report.

He composed music for Nighthawk Zale.

He became the soundtrack composer for some of the Motley Collaborators projects such as Saving Citizens for a fundraiser.

Trivia

 * He's a huge sci fi geek and every sim he played he was comparing to Wing Commander.
 * He's a regular visitor of Ben Lesnick's Wing Commander News website which is how he initially learned about Star Citizen.