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 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 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.