About

Matthew Tyler Giobbi is a musician, composer, author, and educator based in Wind Gap, Pennsylvania. He studied orchestral performance with Per Brevig at The Mannes College of Music, Ivan Meylemans at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels, and with Timothy Soberick at Moravian College. His piano teachers include Paul Schocker and Agrippino Bellino. He teaches music privately and at Saucon Valley Music Center in Hellertown, Pennsylvania. Matthew is a performance psychology consultant and coach for performing and creative artists at Muse & Psyche, LLC. Matthew has been a faculty member of the Department of Psychology, Rutgers University at Newark, since 2004. He holds an MA in psychology from The New School for Social Research in New York City and a Ph.D. in psychodynamic Media and Communications Theory from The European Graduate School in Switzerland. Under the baton of Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Matthew was the principal trombonist of Carnegie Hall's New York Youth Symphony and the Orquesta Filarmonica de Lima in Peru.

Detailed Education

Pre-college:

Paul Schocker, Piano & Theory

Timothy Soberick, Trombone

Undergraduate Studies

Moravian College (Trombone)

Mannes College of Music (Trombone)

East Stroudsburg University (Psychology)

The New School for Social Research (Master of Science. Psychology, 2005)

Clinical psychology: David Shapiro & Bernie Weitzman

Evolutionary Psychology: Nicholas Humphrey

Psycholinguistics: Michael Schober

Cultural Psychology: Joan Miller

Psychoanalysis & Deconstruction: Alan Bass

Research Methods: Arien Mack

History of Psychology: Arthur Blumenthal

Human Development: Nate Kogan

Personality Theory: Bernard Weitzman

Clinical Wisdom of Psychoanalysis: Bernard Weitzman

Cognitive Psychology: William Hirst

European Graduate School (Doctor of Philosophy. Philosophy, Art, & Critical Thought (Media Theory), 2009)

Wolfgang Schirmacher: Schopenhauer, Heidegger

Peter Greenaway: Cinema Theory

Claire Denis: Cinema as Cultural Anthropology

Christopher Fynsk: Heidegger

Judith Butler: Ethics After the Subject 

Siegfried Zielinski: History of Technology & Media

Victor Vitanza: Lyotard

Judith Balso: Wallace Stevens & Ferdinand Pessoa on Poetry

Anthony Gormley: Physical Communication

Bracha Ettinger: Art & Psychoanalysis

Helene Cixous: Writing & Difference

Mannes College of Music (Performance Diploma. Orchestral Trombone, 1996)

Music Theory: Leo Edwards

Counterpoint: Christopher Park, Leo Edwards

Analysis: Carl Schacter

Ear Training & Solfeggio: Chris Parks, Mark Ettinger

Trombone: Per Brevig

Trombone coachings with: Dave Taylor, Joe Alessi, & Dave Finlayson

Conducting: Rudolph Palmer

History of Music: Fred Fehleisen

Music of the Avant-Garde: Eliot

Music of Brahms: Miriam Kartch

Interpretation: Julius Levine

Music of Beethoven: Leo Edwards

Piano: Peter Bellino

Alexander Technique: Kathryn Miranda

Brass Chamber Music: Dave Taylor

Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Masterjaar. Orchestral Trombone, 1997)

Trombone: Ivan Meylemans

Form Analysis: Peter Swinnen

Music History: Christian De Lannoy

Philosophy: Christian De Lannoy

Practical Harmony: Philippe Sorgeloos

Orchestra

Writing (Schrifturr): Marcel De Jonghe

Chamber Music: Georges Staelens

University & College Teaching:

Rutgers University at Newark (2005 to present)

Mercer County College of New Jersey (2005-2010)

University Courses Taught

Media Psychology (Rutgers University at Newark)

Introduction to Clinical Psychology (Rutgers University at Newark)

Child Counseling (Rutgers University at Newark)

Abnormal Psychology (Rutgers University at Newark)

Advanced Abnormal Psychology (Rutgers University at Newark)

History of Psychology (Rutgers University at Newark)

Critical Psychology (Rutgers University at Newark)

Human Developmental Psychology (Rutgers University at Newark)

Child Developmental Psychology (Rutgers University at Newark)

Social Psychology (Rutgers University at Newark)

Theories of Personality (Rutgers University at Newark)

Psychology of Religion (Rutgers University at Newark)

Principles of Psychology (Rutgers University at Newark)

Mass Media (Manhattan Community College)

Classic Literature of the Social Sciences (Mercy College)

Geriatric Psychology (DeSales University)