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| - Matthew Golombisky is/was a United States American and active bassist, composer, educator (Creer Es Crear, SSiiDS, IfCM, Hilldale School, SPACE), conductor (Tomorrow Music Orchestra, IfCM, Creer Es Crear), improviser, curriculum developer (SPACE, Mynah Music, IfCM, Creer Es Crear), arranger, orchestrator, sound designer, stage manager/production (Pitchfork Music Festival, Hideout Block Party, The Swell Season, Peter, Bjørn & John), radio DJ/producer (WNUR 89.3FM), organizer/presenter (Blank Tape Series, ears&eyes Festival), ideator (Clorox), and musical theatre writer & director (Bizzo!). (en)
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| - Matthew Golombisky is/was a United States American and active bassist, composer, educator (Creer Es Crear, SSiiDS, IfCM, Hilldale School, SPACE), conductor (Tomorrow Music Orchestra, IfCM, Creer Es Crear), improviser, curriculum developer (SPACE, Mynah Music, IfCM, Creer Es Crear), arranger, orchestrator, sound designer, stage manager/production (Pitchfork Music Festival, Hideout Block Party, The Swell Season, Peter, Bjørn & John), radio DJ/producer (WNUR 89.3FM), organizer/presenter (Blank Tape Series, ears&eyes Festival), ideator (Clorox), and musical theatre writer & director (Bizzo!). Matthew has lived and been active in music, festival, and film scenes in the Bay Area CA, Chicago, New Orleans, Buenos Aires, New York state, and Asheville, North Carolina, as well as toured the United States and Europe with bands such as IfCM, NOMO, Zing!, Jhelisa, GKduo, WATIV, QMRplus, more. He also directs the independent record label "ears&eyes Records", which represents bands such as James Davis' Beveled, Caroline Davis Quartet, Juan Pastor's Chinchano, Charles Rumback, Darts & Arrows, Quintopus, Silences Sumire, Maurice, Zing!, Pedway, James Davis Quintet, Tomorrow Music Orchestra, Algernon, among others and curated an annual music/arts/film festival under the same name. His undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville led to a B.A. in Jazz Studies/Bass Performance with an emphasis on 20th Century Classical music & theory, graduating with the Award in Distinction in Music and graduate studies to a M.M. in Composition from the University of New Orleans after a brief stint at Northwestern University after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in August 2005. He has taught performance, improvisation, composition, theory, recording techniques, and music marketing to children and adults for more than 18 years in schools and colleges across the nation. He joined the IfCM Collective to travel the US, teaching clinics to high school and college students his methods of composing, improvising and conducting. In 2013, he teamed up with like-minded musicians/educators John Nash, Patrick Liddell and Elisabeth Johnson and founded a not-your-typical-music-school school in Oakland CA to promote experiencing/learning music as a whole art form, as something relevant and exciting, called Mynah Music. Most recently, he became the Music Director and conductor of a youth orchestra in Buenos Aires, Argentina in a government funded program inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema. Matthew's discography includes over 60 recordings featuring his performance, compositions, conducting, film scores, and/or production. He continues to dedicate much energy to presenting wonderful, original and creative music through several groups including his 30 piece jazz/classical/rock ensemble, Tomorrow Music Orchestra, who most recently recorded for singer/songwriter Via Tania's latest release Via Tania with the Tomorrow Music Orchestra. He previously performed with electric jazz-rock quintet, Zing!, acoustic free improv trio, Pedway, drums and bass rock out, punk jazz duo, GKduo with longtime collaborator, Quin Kirchner, and jazz septet led by trombonists Jeb Bishop and Jeff Albert, Lucky 7s. In 2011, he teamed up with Chris Teal and his non-profit IfCM in Rochester NY and launched an education, audience, and community based version of Tomorrow Music Orchestra. Golombisky was born and raised in Durham and Hillsborough, North Carolina. He started playing bugle and cornet at an early age. In middle school, he met an influential friend who sparked his interest in bass guitar, and in high school, played in the Honors Jazz Ensemble. There he formed the Orange High Jazz Combo, which is still going strong today. After high school, Golombisky attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville where he studied acoustic/electric bass performance, jazz, and classical music. At UNC-A, he became the music department's hired music theory tutor. He graduated with the award of Distinction in Music in May 2001. He was also hired as an instructor and event organizer at where he taught private and group trumpet, bass, music theory and improvisation courses. After graduation, he moved to New Orleans and quickly became a full-time working musician, eventually finding himself in twelve different groups at a time, several of which recorded full-length CDs and have played all over the US and Europe. At any given point, he had 30 private students, several of which were accepted to the prestigious New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), aged anywhere from 4 to 75 years old, studying piano, bass, guitar, theory, composition, and improvisation. He organized public concerts and recording sessions for many of his students. In the spring of 2004, he started a Master's program at the University of New Orleans (UNO) in Music Composition with Dr. . In August 2005, he was forced out of New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina, and currently resides in Chicago where he is a steadily performing bassist, working composer and educator, continuing to play with several groups from New Orleans as well as newly formed groups based in Chicago. In Chicago, he has put together a large ensemble consisting of over twenty performers, playing all-original and freshly composed music called the . Since its conception, they have released two CDs, Live @ Ice Factory and neon jesus garage. He attended Northwestern in the fall of 2005 and completed his Master's of Music in Composition from UNO in May 2006. He also directs the community collective known as ears&eyes, which "represents" bands such as Silences Sumire, Maurice, Box 3, Zing!, Pedway, James Davis Quintet, Algernon, among others and curates an annual music/arts/film festival under the same name. Golombisky's "Determining What's Next", a slow movement for chamber orchestra, was premiered in Innsbruck, Austria in November 2005, performed at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 2006 with the Lucky 7s, curated the now annual music/film/arts festival, ears&eyes, and is the director of the collective music community, ears&eyes Records. (en)
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