Matthew Savery, Music Director & Conductor

Celebrating his inaugural season as Music Director of the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra and continuing for a fifteenth season as Music Director of the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Choir, MATTHEW SAVERY enjoys a rapidly expanding reputation for his multi-faceted career as an electrifying performer, dedicated orchestra builder and charismatic teacher.

Matthew Savery’s current season is highlighted by return engagements with Massachusetts’ Springfield Symphony Orchestra and Turkey’s Presidential Symphony Orchestra, as well as another re-engagement with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra. Summer 2009 includes his sixteenth engagement with the Greater Bridgeport Symphony.

Matthew Savery graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and received his Master of Music Degree from the University of Michigan, where he was the recipient of a Teaching Assistantship to the prestigious studio of Gustav Meier and to which he returned in 2001 and 2006 as a Visiting Guest Lecturer. In addition to Mr. Meier, his principal teachers have been Pascal Verrot and Frank Battisti.

While at the University of Michigan, Matthew Savery was the founding Music Director of the University Campus Chamber Orchestra. Subsequently, he served as Music Director of the Comic Opera Guild of Ann Arbor, Massachusetts' Stockbridge Sinfonia and the Tecumseh Orchestra in Michigan. He has also led performances with the Dayton, Fort Wayne, Long Island and Naples Philharmonics, El Paso, Greater Bridgeport, Greater Lansing, Lake St. Clair, Quad City, Saginaw Bay, Sioux City, Springfield (MO and OH), South Dakota and Virginia Symphony Orchestras, Missouri Chamber Orchestra, Cape May Music Festival, Canada's Victoria Symphony, and Turkey's Presidential Symphony Orchestra. In June, 2001 he made a notable debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, opening its acclaimed summer series at Conner Prairie; he has also been heard at Connecticut's famed "Summer Music at Harkness" festival. Mr. Savery was a member of the first class of the International Institute for Conductors in Kiev, Ukraine, and has led that country's National Symphony Orchestra in public performance.

Matthew Savery is a recipient of the Eugene and Sadie Power Award for the Performing Arts. In October 1998, he and the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra were the subjects of a special feature on "CBS Sunday Morning."