Matthew Golombisky is/was a United States American and active bassist, composer, educator (Creer Es Crear, SSiiDS, IfCM, Hilldale School, SPACE), conductor (Tomorrow Music Orchestra, IfCM, Creer Es Crear), improviser, curriculum developer (SPACE, Mynah Music, IfCM, Creer Es Crear), arranger, orchestrator, sound designer, stage manager/production (Pitchfork Music Festival, Hideout Block Party, The Swell Season, Peter, Bjørn & John), radio DJ/producer (WNUR 89.3FM), organizer/presenter (Blank Tape Series, ears&eyes Festival), ideator (Clorox), and musical theatre writer & director (Bizzo!). Matthew has lived and been active in music, festival, and film scenes in the Bay Area CA, Chicago, New Orleans, Buenos Aires, New York state, and Asheville, North Carolina, as well as toured the United States and Europe with bands such as IfCM, NOMO, Zing!, Jhelisa, GKduo, WATIV, QMRplus, more. He also directs the independent record label "ears&eyes Records", which represents bands such as James Davis' Beveled, Caroline Davis Quartet, Juan Pastor's Chinchano, Charles Rumback, Darts & Arrows, Quintopus, Silences Sumire, Maurice, Zing!, Pedway, James Davis Quintet, Tomorrow Music Orchestra, Algernon, among others and curated an annual music/arts/film festival under the same name. His 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, graduating with the Award in Distinction in Music and graduate studies to a M.M. in Composition from the University of New Orleans after a brief stint at Northwestern University after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in August 2005. He has taught performance, improvisation, composition, theory, recording techniques, and music marketing to children and adults for more than 18 years in schools and colleges across the nation. He joined the IfCM Collective to travel the US, 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. Matthew's discography includes over 60 recordings featuring his performance, compositions, conducting, film scores, and/or production. He continues to dedicate much energy to presenting wonderful, original and creative music through several groups including his 30