Matthew Reese

Matthew is a postulant for holy orders in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. He is jointly resident at the Institute of Sacred Music and the Berkeley Divinity School. Matthew came to New Haven from Baltimore, where he remains on the faculty of musicology at Johns Hopkins University. Matthew completed his undergraduate degree at the College of William and Mary, and his masters and doctoral degrees in musicology at the University of Oxford; there, he focused on American musical culture at the fin-de-siècle. Matthew is active as a professional choral singer and conductor, having directed the Oxford University Philharmonia, Consortium Novum, the Washington Young Sinfonia, and the Choir of Pusey House, Oxford.