A Passion for Music: Fenwick Scholar Matthew Pinder ’20

If you had told him when he was a first-year student that he would be spending his senior year at Holy Cross composing music, Matthew Pinder ’20 — who had never composed before — would have had little faith in the idea. But through his experiences over the next few years — including a path-altering introduction to composition lessons his sophomore year and working with three influential mentors — Pinder, a music major in the College’s Honors Program, would ultimately be named his graduating class’ Fenwick Scholar, and would spend his entire senior year composing an original work of music for orchestra and soloists based on the Stations of the Cross.