Matt Warner Music

Dr. Matthew Warner (b. 1978) enjoys a multifaceted career as a music educator, saxophonist, conductor, and composer/arranger based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dr. Warner currently serves as Band and Orchestra Director at Rapid Run Middle School (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Adjunct Instructor of Saxophone at Sinclair Community College (Dayton, Ohio). He is frequently requested as a guest artist, teacher, clinician, adjudicator, and presenter for honors ensembles, schools, workshops, and summer programs.

An avid member of the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA), Dr. Warner has served on the Board of Trustees as the editor of TRIAD, held district offices, and served as Properties Chair for the annual Professional Development Conference. He also maintains membership in the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) and North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA).

Dr. Warner can frequently be heard performing as a saxophonist and woodwind doubler in a variety of contexts throughout the Greater Cincinnati-Dayton area. He has performed with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Springfield (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra, the Blue Wisp Big Band (Cincinnati, Ohio), the Jazz Educators Big Band (Springfield, Missouri), Springboro Wind Symphony, and in the orchestra pit of many professional theater productions. As a concert saxophonist, he has performed at World Saxophone Congress XIII, North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) Regional and Biennial Conferences, OMEA conferences, the NAfME Northeast Regional Conference, MSJ Artist Series (Palm City, FL), and for masterclasses with renowned saxophonists Jean-Marie Londeix and William Street.

An emergent composer, Dr. Warner was a recent winner of the Silver Melted Into Sound Composition Contest with his string orchestra work “Prophet and Priestess: for Harriet Beecher Stowe.” His works for concert band and string orchestra have been performed by ensembles at the intermediate, high school, university and community level.

A Dayton, Ohio native, he earned the BM in Music Education and MH in Music from Wright State University, and the DMA in Music Education from Boston University (Boston, MA). Beyond music, Dr. Warner enjoys scuba diving, travel, and cooking.