Download Matt Holman Biography New York based trumpeter/composer

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, Jon Gordon,
Kate McGarry, Kurt Elling, Matt Ulery, Bob Newhart, Andrew Rathbun, Los Amigos Invisibles, and
The Gregory Brothers in countries including the United States, Canada, Mexico, The Netherlands,
Italy, Germany, 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.
Taking inspiration from such diverse influences as Wayne Shorter, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Sigur
Ros, Holman has composed works for 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 current member of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, Holman was the
winner of the 13th annual BMI Foundation’s Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize and will compose
a new work for the Manny Albam Commission in June 2013.
A dedicated and passionate educator, Matt Holman has taught at the British School of Chicago, the
Manhattan School of Music, the Birch Creek Performance Center in Wisconsin, and is currently the
Artistic Director of the New York Youth Symphony Jazz Orchestra. The recipient of an Illinois Arts
Council grant, he has served as a teaching artist 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 where he studied composition with Phil Markowitz and Dr. Mark
Stambaugh. His teachers have included Laurie Frink, Dominic Spera, George Garzone, and Pat
Harbison.