matthew croft

music director | keyboards | conductor | orchestrator | composer

“Iris”

The Goo Goo Dolls

“Only Love Can Hurt Like This”

Paloma Faith

Ship Orchestrations

Are you a cruise ship performer? Do you need a custom orchestration of a song for your performances with the on-board orchestra? Do you need charts written by someone who has extensive experience writing vocal & instrumental arrangements for any size ensemble and will make sure they sound their best? Then you’ve come to the right place!

“Best Thing I Never Had”

Beyoncé

“I Want to Know What Love Is”

Foreigner

As a composer & orchestrator, I have written many charts for vocalists onboard ships for Royal Caribbean; these orchestrations are custom & tailored to each individual performer’s requests. These orchestrations are written for the standard 9-piece orchestra onboard Royal Caribbean ships - Reed 1 (doubling Flute, Clarinet, & Alto Sax), Reed 2 (doubling Clarinet & Tenor Sax), Trumpet 1 (doubling Flugelhorn), Trumpet 2 (doubling Flugelhorn), Trombone, Piano/Keyboard, Vocal, Guitar, Bass, Drums. I also provide a Piano/Conductor score as well as a full score for each piece.

Current titles Available

A Moment
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

Best Thing I Never Had
Bound to You
Careless Whisper (acoustic version, piano only)
Dancing Queen (acoustic version, piano/guitar/bass/drums only)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (female version)
Home
I Want to Know What Love Is
Iris
It’s a Man’s World
Me & My Shadow (vocal duet)
Only Love Can Hurt Like This
Rule the World (vocal trio)
All By Myself
Elephant Medley
(vocal duet)
Another Hundred People
Take Me or Leave Me
(vocal duet)
You Make Me Feel So Young (Bublé version)
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley/Leonard Cohen/Rufus Wainwright)
Hurricane
(Let’s Start) Tomorrow Tonight
I Can’t Make You Love Me (George Michael)
Unchained Melody

and more on the way!

Contact me HERE for more information, to commission a new arrangement, or to purchase one of these existing charts.

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