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Matthew earned a Bachelor of Music in Double Bass Performance from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and a Master of Nonprofit Organization from Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. He has been active in arts management and promotion in the Cleveland area for the past several years. Prior to coming to COSE, Matthew worked in educational outreach as the Associate Director for Roots of American Music, a nonprofit organization that delivers arts-based assembly and residency programs to underserved schools throughout Northeast Ohio.
Matthew has been a professional musician for the past fourteen years and has performed regionally, nationally and internationally in jazz, rock, blues, roots music, Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music ensembles. He plays the double bass and electric bass, and studies flamenco guitar and tres cubano, a Cuban folk guitar, on the side. He served as guest clinician and adjudicator for the 2004 Tiffin Jazz Festival, twice served as artist-in-residence for the Summer Festival of the Arts in Bar Harbor, Maine and has been featured with his instrumental trio, the Up ensemble, on NPR and PBS.
