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Matt Falker

Oceanside, CA

Come read the newest vocal jazz releases from JEN exhibiting publishers Hal Leonard, Alfred, iJazzMusic, and Anchor Music. Led by Matt Falker, attendees will receive packets of music of all levels recommended by our vocal committee, and sing along with our ensemble of industry-leading educators and performers.

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MATT FALKER is a jazz and gospel pianist, vocalist, arranger and clinician. As a full-time professor at MiraCosta College, Matt directs the Downbeat award-winning Frequency vocal jazz program, teaches theory and piano classes, and is founder and director of the Oceanside Jazz Festival, a non-competitive vocal jazz festival hosted at MiraCosta. Matt was also one of a select group of teachers chosen as a quarter-finalist for the GRAMMY’s Music Educator Award.

Driven by a passion to ensure that quality vocal jazz music is available to educators, Matt’s arrangements are written for choirs of all levels. He now distributes his music through his publishing company, Anchor Music Publications (formerly Sound Music Publications founded by Frank DeMiero in 1988), as well as the music of dozens of other arrangers and composers in the vocal jazz community.

Anchor Music also runs a series of one-day vocal jazz workshops for teachers and students called the Vocal Jazz Academy, and hosts an Educator Support community for hundreds of educators on Facebook. The Academy workshops take place primarily in the fall, and will be hosted in numerous locations around the United States and Canada.

As a vocalist and pianist, he has presented featured sets at both the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference and the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Western Division Conference, with both the Matt Falker Quartet and the ensemble True North. In 2019, he presented a performance of his singing, playing, and arranging at the International Jazz Voice Conference in Helsinki, Finland.

anchormusic.com / oceansidejazzfestival.com / vocaljazzacademy.com

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