About Maureen

Stories of love, resilience and inspiration.

Maureen Matthes at the piano

Maureen Matthes is a singer, songwriter, and lyricist whose music lives in the honest space between emotion and craft. She writes about love, resilience, and the moments that stay with you long after they should — drawing from a life spent paying close attention to what people rarely say out loud.

Most of her work begins at the piano. A phrase that won't leave her alone. A melody that arrives before the words do. From that starting point she follows the thread — finding the structure that lets the feeling breathe, the lyric that earns every syllable, the arrangement that makes the emotion land harder than it should. The result is never a demo or a sketch. It's a finished song.

Beyond her own catalogue, Maureen collaborates with independent artists, labels, and music supervisors at every stage of a project — co-writes, topline, song doctoring, vocal production. Whatever a project needs, she brings the same attention she brings to her own work: the belief that a great song isn't an accident, and that the only thing worth delivering is something worth keeping.

Maureen Matthes recording studio
300+ Songs written
20+ Artist collaborations
11 Catalogue releases
Film
& TV
Sync-ready catalogue
How I work

The approach

Emotional truth

Every line earns its place. The best songs feel like they couldn't have been written any other way — because they couldn't.

Melody first

A great lyric lives on a great melody. I build both together so neither feels bolted on — they arrive as one thing.

Finished craft

Ideas are easy. Finished songs are rare. I deliver songs that are done — complete, production-ready, and release-quality.

Ready to start something?

Whether you have a clear brief or just a feeling — let's figure out what the song needs to be.