Matt Van Brink is a composer, pianist, and accordionist living in New York City. Matt is currently piano faculty and composer at Concordia Conservatory (Bronxville, NY), where a recent string of commissions has yielded several one-act musicals and many chamber music works for student performers. He has received many commissions, residencies, and awards and is currently a composer in the BMI Musical Theater Workshops. His work is published by Schott Music, Tenuto Press, and Transcontinental Music Publications. He studied at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Indiana University, and Boston University, where in 2005 he received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Composition. Matt’s teachers include luminaries Samuel Adler, John Harbison, and Lukas Foss.