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Matthew V.

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Matthew J Viator is a composer, pianist, and vocal coach living in Washington, DC.  Mr. Viator is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, studying with Christopher Theofanidis, Nicholas Maw, Shafer Mahoney, Corey McVicor, David Smooke, and Libby Larson.  Mr. Viator has also studied with noted Pedagogue Gigi Reeks.

Active since 2000 with works and performances in various venues across the nation, Mr. Viator's compositional style is influenced by minimalism, traditional jazz, modernism, and classical counterpoint.  Among his particular musical strengths, Mr. Viator is a skilled writer of Baroque Counterpoint, Russian Music and Analysis, and the Musicological study of the American Modernists, 1920 - 1950.

Among the technical traditions used, Mr. Viator teaches students the schools of Clementi, Leschevitzky, with a constant eye towards efficacy and physical / emotional achievement. Mr. Viator is a sixth generation teacher in the Beethoven lineage.