Matthew Tyler Giobbi is a musician, composer, author, and educator based in Easton, Pennsylvania. Matthew works in improvisational music of all genres. His main instruments are trombone and piano. 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, and at
East-Tones Music School in Easton, 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.
