Matthew Golombisky is a USA-born, Buenos
Aires-living acoustic & electric bassist, composer, improviser, conductor,
and educator who also wears many hats like the director/founder of independent
record label ears&eyes Records, (past) conductor & artistic director of
youth orchestra, Orquesta Creer Es Crear, in Avellaneda, Argentina, curriculum
developer, teaching artist and board member of 501(C)3 non-profit Institute for
Creative Music and in the past has taught in schools such as SPACE, Mynah
Music, Hilldale, Asheville Music schools, stage managed for Pitchfork Music
Festival, Hideout Block Party, The Swell Season, Peter, Bjørn & John,
DJ-ed/produced radio for WNUR 89.3FM, curated an annual ears&eyes
Festivals, ideated for Clorox, and wrote, composed and directed musical theatre
for Bizzo!.
Matthew has lived and been active in music,
festival, and film scenes in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, New Orleans,
Buenos Aires Argentina, upstate New York, and Asheville NC, as well as toured
the USA and Europe with bands such as IfCM, NOMO, Zing!, Jhelisa,
Golombisky-Kirchner duo, WATIV, QMRplus, & more.
AllAboutJazz and writer Jakob Baekgaard
recently called Matthew a modern “renaissance man” (the article has more than
26,000 views/reads). He is a forward moving, fast acting, and busy artist.
Between his acoustic/electric bass performing, commissioned compositions
(including his work on Australian singer/songwriter Via Tania’s latest album,
featuring his Tomorrow Music Orchestra, his film scoring contributions to
Argentine director Alejo Domínguez’s feature film, La Soñada, or creating
improvisation teaching supplements for the Institute for Creative Music),
directing, filming and editing music videos and/or release trailers (ie.
Cuentos, Chad Taylor, Nate Lepine, TMO, Quintopus, Matija Dedic, blink.),
creating layout design work and/or photography for websites and albums (e&e.com,
Matija Dedic, Hood Smoke, Pedway, Quintopus), conducting, directing and
composing for at-risk youth orchestra, Orquesta Creer Es Crear in Argentina
where they performed in the tango-famed Teatro Roma, founding/directing
Chicago-based indie label, ears&eyes Records (2018 marks eleven years), and
now releasing his newest double EP cassette, Cuentos Vol. 1 & 2, just maybe
he can back AllAboutJazz’s forceful claim.
Matthew's 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,
while earning the Distinction in Music Award, and masters studies to a M.M. in
(classical) Composition from the University of New Orleans after a brief stint at
Northwestern University after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in
August 2005.
Matthew’s discography includes over 50
recordings featuring his performance, compositions, conducting, film scoring,
artwork/design, photography, recording/mixing, and/or production.
He has taught performance, improvisation,
composition, theory, recording techniques, and music marketing to children and
adults for 20 years in schools and colleges across the nation. He joined the
IfCM Collective to travel the USA, 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.
His composition style is wide ranging,
steeped in modern classical, experimental, experiential, thoughtful, jazz, rock
and pop genres, but never limits himself to anything and absorbs all music
listened to. He creates moods and aural images that captivate, intrigue,
invigorate, confuse and/or excite his audience.
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