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Name:
Matt Dievendorf
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City/Place:
Washington, D.C.
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Country:
United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
Matt started his musical career at home under the tutelage of his father, an accomplished guitarist. While still a teenager, performing with multiple groups that included both his father and brother, Matt was immersed in the rock and blues traditions.
After finishing high school Matt was recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps as a guitarist. Four years later, after graduating from the Armed Forces School of Music and performing in hundreds of concerts, Matt headed to the University of Michigan School of Music.
While at Michigan, Matt performed with the University of Michigan Jazz Ensemble and appeared on William Bolcom’s 2005 GRAMMY Award winning album Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Matt graduated from the University of Michigan with highest honors.
Matt has spent several years in Washington, DC as a key player in the DC and Baltimore music communities, and as an accomplished guitar instructor at Levine Music. He freelances with diverse ensembles ranging from alt country and indie-rock outfits to jazz trios and the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra.
In 2013, Matt relocated to Los Angeles, California to study in the famed Studio/Jazz Guitar Program at the University of Southern California. He has earned a Master’s degree and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Thornton School of Music at USC. Matt is the 2018 outstanding doctoral graduate of the Thornton School of Music.
Matt recently returned to the Washington, DC area. He currently performs as a duo with his wife, Amy K Bormet. They explore an eclectic mix of songs from the Great American Songbook, MPB, country, R&B and popular songs as well as original material.
Matt’s latest project Beyond the Horizon is a 50-minute multimedia concert that imagines what it would be like to travel with the New Horizons spacecraft three billion miles to Pluto.
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We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow. — Banch Abegaze (manager: Kamasi Washington)
KAMASI WASHINGTON
Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix. — Susan Rogers (personal recording engineer for Prince; recorded "Purple Rain", "Around the World in a Day", "Parade", "Sign o' the Times"... recorded David Byrne and others; now director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory)
SUSAN ROGERS
Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched! — Julian Lloyd Webber (premiere cellist in the United Kingdom; brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER
This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :))) — Clarice Assad (pianist and composer; works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world)
CLARICE ASSAD
Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!! — Alicia Svigals (world's premier klezmer violinist)
ALICIA SVIGALS
I'm Sparrow. I built this matrix so that every creator on the planet would be conceivably findable and accessible from all others, beginning with musicians in Bahia, Brazil. The matrix combines recommendation by both artificial and human intelligence (human preferred) and the small-world phenomenon (responsible for the fact that most humans are within 6 steps of most others) in a simple but powerful manner which has never been used before.
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