Press
Reviews, interviews and radio features.
“The pure emotive quality of Cochran’s music pulls you into its embrace and empties your heart with every note.”
No Depression
“Commanding stage presence, intimate expression, and inventive interpretation.”
Soundboard
“Strong, nuanced, and textured performance with compelling dynamics and a beautiful sound.”
Classical Guitar Magazine
“A wide variety of textures from melodic exchanges, intricate kaleidoscopic grooves, to spacious mediations.”
This is Classical Guitar
Reviews, interviews and radio
2025
- Review of Pale Blue DotRoots Music Report, Robert Silverstein
- Review of Pale Blue DotPipeline Magazine, George Geddes
- Working differently with the Cochran & McAllister guitar duoInterlochen Public Radio, Nancy Deneen
2024
- Review of Pale Blue DotThis is Classical Guitar, Bradford Werner
- New album showcases Interlochen faculty guitaristsInterlochen Public Radio, Amanda Sewell
- Pale Blue Dot WeekInterlochen Public Radio, Kids Commute, Kate Botello
2023
- Episode 159: Matthew CochranClassical Guitar Insider, Bret Williams
2022
- Matthew Cochran and Michael Kudirka, Better TogetherInterlochen Public Radio, In Studio A, Kate Botello
2018–2021
- Curator SeriesGallery of Guitar, Matthew McAllister
- With Nancy Stagnitta, flute, and Crispin Campbell, celloInterlochen Public Radio, In Studio A, Amanda Sewell
- Matthew Cochran1-Track Podcast, Anthony Joseph Lanman
- Guitar Class in the Great Lake StateNational Association for Music Education, Thomas Amoriello, Jr.
- Guitar WeekInterlochen Public Radio, Kids Commute, Kate Botello
- Works by Rodrigo, Falla and Villa-LobosInterlochen Public Radio, In Studio A, Amanda Sewell
- Works by Kellner and DiabelliInterlochen Public Radio, In Studio A, Amanda Sewell
Presenters and journalists: photos and short biographies are on the About page.