Matthew Dunne
Assistant Professor
Music Marketing, Guitar, Jazz

(210)458-5682
matthew.dunne@utsa.edu

Matthew Dunne, guitarist and composer, has performed and taught throughout the United States and Mexico in both the classical and jazz genres, including concerto performances, chamber music concerts, solo recitals, and featured jazz performances. He received the DMA degree in guitar performance, jazz emphasis, from The University of Texas at Austin, the first guitarist to receive this degree, and the MM degree in guitar performance from Florida State University. Since 1992, he has been on the faculty of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and has also taught at the North Carolina School of the Arts and Marshall University, where he directed the guitar program and taught Jazz Studies. He is a frequent collaborator with The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, having composed music for their last three Telarc CDs, including the Grammy winning Guitar Heroes.  He has recorded two compact discs; Forget the Alamo, a collection of his compositions for jazz combo, and Music in the Mission, a recording of mostly 20th century Latin American music for classical guitar recorded in Mission San Jose in San Antonio. The latter of these won an award in Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s “Homegrown CD” contest for self produced CDs of any style featuring acoustic guitar.

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