BIOGRAPHY

Matthew Mauro has served as the Adjunct Professor of Horn at Morehead State University in Kentucky. He completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in 2020. He has performed with the Dayton Philharmonic, Toledo Symphony, Kentucky Symphony, and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestras, and was scheduled to perform with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra in March 2020. Matt has appeared as a soloist with the Toledo and Stow Symphony Orchestras. He was invited to perform a lecture recital at the 52nd International Horn Symposium (IHS 52) in Oregon in August 2020 and had previously presented a lecture at IHS 51 in Ghent, Belgium in 2019. Matt has spent summers performing at the Round Top Music Festival and Brevard Music Center. His major mentors on the horn include Richard Deane, Elizabeth Freimuth, Randy Gardner, and Denise Tryon. Before pursuing the horn professionally, Matt also studied classical piano for twelve years. 

In addition to performing, Matt also maintains an active teaching schedule. He has a studio of both private horn and piano students and has taught as an adjunct music faculty member at Northern Kentucky University. Matt earned a cognate in Music Theory and was a graduate teaching assistant in Music Theory while pursuing his doctorate degree from CCM. In addition to performing and teaching, Matt is also the Music and Choir Director at the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Anderson, Ohio, where he plays the piano for and accompanies worship services.

Matt also has an interest in music composition, and has had works for wind ensemble, horn choir, and piano published by the C.L. Barnhouse and FJH Music Companies. One of his works for wind ensemble, Freeing Aurora, was premiered in Carnegie Hall. Matt has recently combined his passion for composition with horn pedagogy in order to write an etude book designed to facilitate the preparation of orchestral excerpts (to be published in 2020). 

Matt earned his Master of Music degree from CCM in 2014 and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from The Ohio State University in 2011. He is a well-rounded, versatile, and creative musician with experience as a horn performer, pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher.  

Matt is a native of Whitehouse, Ohio—a small village outside of Toledo. He has a passion for travel and makes a point to visit Europe at least once a year as time allows.