Extraordinary talent crooning familiar musical theatre favorites!

Matt has been a member of Actors’ Equity Association since 2005, writing original musicals and performing leading roles for touring union companies.  He recently worked with Julie Andrews in the Great American Mousical at Legacy Theatre in Stony Creek.

Matt is the immediate past President of the Connecticut chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and has served on the Connecticut Music Educators Association (CMEA) executive board as the Membership Chair.  In his current position in CMEA, Vocal Czar, he helped to revolutionize the adjudication process for high school singers across the state.  His focus in these professional organizations has been championing underrepresented factions of Connecticut musicians and facilitating access and equity for all students.

In 2018, he became the first choral artist to be granted a National Park Artist-In-Residence position (Glacier National Park, Montana). He earned the distinction of Connecticut ACDA's Choral Director of the Year, culminating in the first published choral work explicitly created for a national park.  Matt is working on a book to help students build music literacy fundamentals called “The Gravity of Solfege,” hopefully in print by 2025.  

Matt has been the choir director at Hamden Hall Country Day School since 2014.  His thriving program has been among the state's most successful and has earned significant national accolades.  He also serves as the organist and choir director at First Lutheran Church of the Reformation in New Britain.  Matt lives in Hamden with his partner, Maggie, and their French bulldog (Claude).  

Matthew Harrison graduated from Amity Regional Senior High School (Woodbridge, CT) before attending James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA) for his piano and music education undergraduate degree.  He then went on to earn his M.M. from the New England Conservatory (Boston, MA) in voice performance.  This fall, Matt will begin his doctoral studies in choral conducting at The University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT).