Matt Van Brink is a composer, pianist, and accordionist living in New York City. He studied composition with Bruce Adolphe at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, with David Dzubay, Samuel Adler and Don Freund at Indiana University, and with John Harbison and Lukas Foss at Boston University (Doctor of Musical Arts, 2005). He studied piano with Jeremy Denk at Indiana University. Matt is currently piano faculty and composer at Concordia Conservatory (Bronxville, NY).

Matt was an artist resident at the MacDowell Colony, served as composer-in-residence for Boston’s Collage New Music, participated in the VocalEssence Essentially Choral new music reading sessions, and is currently a composer in the BMI Musical Theater Workshops. Matt has received three ASCAP Young Composer Awards, the Northridge Composition Prize, and prizes from San Francisco Choral Artists, TransforMusic, and the Delius Competition.

A recent string of commissions from Concordia Conservatory and the ASCAP Foundation has yielded several one-act musicals and chamber music pieces for student performers. His flute sonata Dal Dosai was commissioned by Thomas Robertello and is recorded by him (Crystal Records) and by Paul Dunkel (MSR Classics). Additional commissions have come from Polkasatra, Polygraph Lounge, Collage New Music, Austin Chapter of Hadassah, New York Youth Symphony Chamber Program, Celebrity Series of Boston, American Guild of Organists Suffolk Chapter, and other individuals and friends.

Schott Music publishes Matt’s two arrangements of Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin. Tenuto Press publishes Dal Dosai and the woodwind duet Shabu Shabu. Transcontinental Music Publications included Matt’s setting of "V'Shamru" in Music for Shabbat Vol. III.