July, 4 @ 6-9:45pm - FIRST FRIDAY AT CHRISTIAN DAVID GALLERY STARTS UP AGAIN
July, 5 @ 7-10pm - Belvedere Restaurant
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Matthew Monticchio earned a degree in music from West Chester University in 1997, studying piano with Timothy Blair and composition with Robert Maggio. His teachers at Peabody Conservatory, where he earned a masters in composition in 2001, were Morris Cotel and Christopher Theofanidis. He studied composition with his teacher, friend and mentor Ron Thomas since 1995. Like Mr. Thomas, Matthew lives an eclectic musical life. Matt is a jazz pianist, classical composer, sacred music composer, arranger and also contributes his improvisational skills and eclectic music background and thinking to musicians in wide ranging musical spheres. Matthew serves as director of music at Wheatland Presbyterian Church, directing and composing for the choir and various other ensembles. He has written numerous arrangements and original sacred pieces for use in services. He has also composed many spiritual songs for use in congregational singing. Many of these songs can be heard on the new Pageant Music release Angels, Trees and Flowers. In 1998 Matt and two fellow composers, Ron Thomas and David Thomas began annual (for the most part) concerts of new music under the auspices of LesThree(or Les3). In the summer of 2006 Les3 will present their 7th concert consisting of songs for soprano and piano. Matt has also recently established a new music group with fellow Lancaster, PA composers Simon Andrews and Rusty Banks which seeks to encourage the performance of and proliferate new music in the Central Pennsylvania area. Matt also works as a freelance jazz pianist leading various ensembles. You can catch him and his good friend and musical collaborator Willie Morales(bass) every 1st Friday at the Christiane David Gallery, 142 N. Prince St. in Lancaster city. He and his wife Rebecca, and their two daughters, live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he teaches piano, music theory, composition and orchestration. Contact Matthew here. |
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