Biography
Matt Boyle is a percussionist and chamber musician whose work centers on contemporary repertoire, collaborative performance, and long-form musical processes. Matt appears regularly in solo, chamber, and ensemble settings, with performances at venues and festivals including Carnegie Hall (USA), Yellow Barn (USA), the Lucerne Festival (CH), the Fitzrovia Arts Festival (UK), and the Aspen Music Festival and School. His work spans a wide range of repertoire, from established twentieth-century works to premieres of new compositions, and frequently involves close collaboration with living composers.
Matt has collaborated with composers such as Jörg Widmann, David Lang, Du Yun, Martin Bresnick, and Julian Anderson. He has participated in readings and performances of new works through institutions including the Lucerne Composition Seminar and New Music New Haven Concert Series. He has performed under the direction of conductors including Sir George Benjamin, Beat Furrer, and Ruth Reinhardt.
An active chamber musician, Matt is a member of The Percussion Collective in the 2025-26 season he will appear with them in Boston with the Cantata Singers. He will also be a part of a performance of Mauricio Kagel’s Dressur as a part of Bang on a Can’s Long Play festival in New York City. Matt helped launch a new concert series for children, The Percussion Collective: Drums Around the World. Matt co-founded the illume duo (marimba +violin), a group focused on expanding the repertoire for the instrumentation through both new commissions and reinterpretations of existing works.
In addition to performing, Matt maintains a private teaching studio, working with percussion students both in-person and in online settings. His teaching emphasizes sound production, musical clarity, and technical efficiency across keyboard, snare drum, timpani, and multiple percussion.
Matt is currently completing a Master of Music degree at the Yale School of Music. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and has received honors including the Robert and Cecile van Sice Award (Yale) and the Robert van Sice Percussion Scholarship (Peabody).
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December 2025