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Pianist, composer, and electronic musician Matt Mitchell was born in the Philadelphia area in 1975. After studying music at Indiana University and the Eastman School of Music, he settled back in Philadelphia in 1999. Since then he has pursued an interest in the intersections of both composed and improvised music and of 'classical', 'jazz', and electronic music, performing consistently throughout the United States and Europe. In addition to his solo activities he has been a member of the long standing Philadelphia-area groups Kaktus, with Aaron Meicht and Lars Halle, and Feigner, with Aaron Meicht both of which groups have explored new areas of non-idiomatic group improvisation and released several acclaimed albums on Scrapple Records. His most recent recording, the large-scale electroacoustic piece 'vapor squint, antique chromatic', was released on Scrapple in 2007 to uniformly positive reviews. His current activities include the duo Brown Grant with Aaron Meicht, a trio co-led with Doug Hirlinger, and duos with Tim Albro, Ian Fraser and Mike Szekely. Additionally, he is a member of the avant-rock band Thinking Plague, and he performs and has performed with a number of musicians including Ralph Alessi, Ravi Coltrane, Tim Berne, Brad Shepik, Drew Gress, Mark Helias, Tom Rainey, Jim Black, Ari Hoenig, Josh Roseman, and John Swana. He is also a frequent faculty member with the Center for Improvisational Music in Brooklyn, NY.

www.mattmitchell.us

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www.scrapplerecords.com