Matthew Van Brink,  composer, pianist, accordionist

Biography

Matthew Van Brink (b. 1978) is an American composer, pianist and accordionist living in New York City. He has studied composition with Bruce Adolphe at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, with David Dzubay, Samuel Adler and Don Freund at Indiana University (B.Mus 2000), and with John Harbison and Lukas Foss at Boston University (D.M.A. 2005). Van Brink is currently composing a short musical for children commissioned by Concordia Conservatory (Bronxville, NY), where he is also a faculty member. As a performer, Van Brink is foremost a pianist but also plays accordion, and will perform with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra this summer in Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahaggony.

Van Brink’s compositions are published by Tenuto Press, a division of Presser Music, and his arrangements are published by Schott Music.



Curriculum Vitae

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