One Big Note
Designed, developed, and shipped a focused native Mac app to the Mac App Store.
Portfolio résumé / Mathew HarwichIdeas. Craft.
Ideas. Craft.
Experience.
Creative technologist, composer, trumpet performer and teacher, media producer, and photographer. Builds practical apps and websites with AI, bringing a musician’s attention to timing, detail, and expression into digital work.
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Design & software
From a useful idea to a working tool.
AI-assisted building
Uses AI extensively for design, implementation, creative problem solving, and workflow improvement. Built Behalf to organize career information.
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Sound & production
A performer’s ear. An editor’s precision.
Concert recording
Audio and video work for LA Winds since 2022; professional audio recording for the Pasadena Community Orchestra since 2025.
SCSBOA virtual honor ensembles
Created and produced the elementary, middle, and high school virtual honor ensemble concerts, integrating individual audio and video performances.
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Music & education
Composition, performance, and shared understanding.
Trumpet performance
Has served as principal trumpet with Pasadena Community Orchestra and Southland Wind Ensemble. Performed with Millennial Choirs & Orchestras and as a guest artist with Lemaitre at Coachella in 2016.
Dreaming Awake film scores
Composed music for the Dreaming Awake trailer and three films: Fort Funston, Wallaby Ranch, and Building Dreams. Dreaming Awake at Fort Funston won First Place at the 6th NorCal Free Flight Film Festival in 2016.
Teaching & ensemble direction
Private and online trumpet teaching. Began teaching trumpet at Orion in January 2026 and directed its summer band program in 2026.
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Photography
People, performance, and a sense of place.
MPH Photo
Professional portraits, family and group photographs, performance imagery, and promotional work. Longstanding exclusive photographer for Irish Dimensions Dance Company.
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Education & tools
California Institute of the Arts
Performer-Composer program · performance and composition. Studied with Edward Carroll and Barry Schrader.
Across the practice
- AI-assisted app and web development
- Interface design and workflow automation
- Film composition and scoring
- Audio recording, repair, editing, and mixing
- Video editing and multi-performer assembly
- Portrait and performance photography
- Trumpet performance and teaching
Production tools: Adobe Premiere Pro · Final Cut Pro · Logic Pro · Ableton Live.
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