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Matt Holman Biography
New York based trumpeter/composer/educator Matt Holman has performed
and/or recorded with such diverse jazz and creative artists as Fred Hersch, John
Hollenbeck, Darcy James Argue, Bang on a Can's Asphalt Orchestra, New York
Voices, Jon Gordon, Matt Ulery, Bob Newhart, Andrew Rathbun, Los Amigos
Invisibles, and The Gregory Brothers throughout North America, South America,
Europe, Asia, and Australia. He has earned national and international
performance awards including the International Trumpet Guild’s Jazz
Improvisation Competition, the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo
Competition, the National Trumpet Competition, and Down Beat. His 5-piece
chamber jazz group, Matt Holman's Diversion Ensemble, released their debut
recording "When Flooded" in March 2013 on Brooklyn Jazz Underground
Records.
Taking inspiration from such diverse influences as Wayne Shorter, Dmitri
Shostakovich, and Sigur Ros, Holman has composed and arranged works for
Stefon Harris, Jane Monheit, Marvin Stamm, Ed Soph, David Baker, Marie
Speziale, and The National Conservatory of Costa Rica and was a 2009 ASCAP
Young Jazz Composer’s Competition winner. A former member of the BMI Jazz
Composers Workshop, Holman was the winner of the 13th annual BMI
Foundation’s Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize/Manny Albam Commission.
A dedicated and passionate educator, Matt Holman has taught at the British
School of Chicago, the Birch Creek Performance Center in Wisconsin, and is
currently the Artistic Director of the New York Youth Symphony Jazz Band and
teaches at Manhattan School of Music and Hunter College. The recipient of an
Illinois Arts Council grant, he has served as a teaching artist and clinician at
dozens of middle and high schools throughout the United States. Holman holds a
Bachelor of Music from Indiana University and Master of Music from Manhattan
School of Music.