Matthew Dunne, Music Marketing Area Coordinator, Guitar Studies Coordinator

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. He has been on the faculty of the University of Texas at San Antonio since 1992, 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. Dr. Dunne has recorded three compact discs; Forget the Alamo, a collection of his compositions for jazz combo, Music in the Mission, a recording of mostly 20th century Latin American music for classical guitar recorded in Mission San Jose in San Antonio, and The Accidental Trio, an acclaimed recording featuring vocalist Joan Carroll and accordionist Mark Rubinstein. Music in the Mission won an award in Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s “Homegrown CD” contest for self produced CDs of any style featuring acoustic guitar.

Dr. Dunne is earning an increasingly international reputation as a composer of guitar music. He recently won both the grant award for music composition and the Tobin Grand Prize for Artistic Excellence from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio. This award is given to the artist who’s work is judged to be the highest quality from a pool of entrants in several artistic disciplines, including literature, visual arts, and music. Internationally acclaimed guitarist William Kanengiser has performed and recorded several of Dunne’s Jazz Etudes for Classical Guitar on his GSP recording Classical Cool. He composed the required piece for the Guitar Foundation of America’s 2005 International Guitar Competition; that piece, Appalachian Summer, was recorded on Naxos by the GFA winner Jerome Ducharme. Both of these works are published by GSP international and have been performed extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. Besides performing and composing, Dr. Dunne has organized The Southwest Guitar Festival biennially since 1995, which included founding the SWGF International Guitar Competition, and the GFA Convention in San Antonio in 2000, bringing Cuban composer Leo Brouwer to the U.S. for his first conducting and teaching appearance in the U.S. since 1959. He is a frequent judge at guitar competitions, including the most important international competitions in the U.S. (GFA) and in Mexico. (Concurso Internacional de México) Dr. Dunne has also been active in fostering collaboration between guitarists of Mexico and the United States. To this end, he has twice organized the U.S./Mexico Guitar Orchestra, a bi-national guitar ensemble consisting of talented student and young professional guitarists from both countries, and was instrumental in the planning and organization of the GFA 2003 Convention in Merida, Yucatan.

Courses Taught

MUS 2263 1 Intro to the Music Industry
MUS 2663 901 History and Styles of Jazz
MUS 3252 2 Adv Lit-Analysis: Guitar Lit I
MUS 3252 2 Adv Lit-Analysis: Guitar Lit II
MUS 3613 1 American Music & Culture
MUS 4803 1 Seminar in Music Marketing
MUS 4933 1 Music Marketing Internship