Balancing a career as a composer, songwriter, educator, and performer, Matt Van Brink is a musical pluralist who can bridge Kern and counterpoint, Sondheim and serialism. He has composed and arranged more than 70 works for a variety of ensembles across many genres and his catalog includes orchestra, chamber, and solo instrumental pieces, choral and vocal compositions, plus musical theater, music for young performers and audiences, and arrangements. Van Brink heads the Composition and Songwriting department at Concordia Conservatory in Bronxville, N.Y., where he mentors students in their quests to become professional musicians and musical citizens.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Matt Van Brink
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Mount Vernon, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007
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mattvanbrink.com
Studios
Veltin
Matt Van Brink worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…