Matt Swihart received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in 1995 and his Master of Music degree from Rice University in 1998. At Rice University, he studied under the late Armando Ghitalla, Principal Trumpet Emeritus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and world-renowned pedagogue. Matt has been a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival and at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, where he performed under conductors including Seiji Ozawa, Christoph Eschenbach, Mitislav Rostropovich, Robert Spano and Andre Previn. He has performed with the United Nations Global Warming Conference Orchestra and the Seattle, Bellevue, Federal Way, Kirkland, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Monterey, and Cincinnati Opera and Ballet Orchestras.

Matt spent 2001 - 2003 in Germany on a Fulbright Grant, where he studied with Max Sommerhalder and performed with the Munster Symphony, the Bielefeld Orchestra, and the Detmold Chamber Orchestra.

Matt is on leave from a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Stony Brook, New York. He moved to Seattle in late 2003 to join his lovely wife Maya who is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington.

Matt is originally from Goshen, IN.



Resources