Matthew Farias

My name is Matt Farias. I'm a musician of over 20 years playing professionally and teaching for about 10 of those years. I was raised on music growing up and encouraged to go into the concert band when I was a kid and decided to pick up the tuba. A decision that changed my life and focus right then and there as tuba came so naturally to me with the encouragement of my family and my band directors to keep going with that instrument all the way to a degree in it from a university. Along side that I decided to double on Trombone/Euphonium as the jazz band was looking for players. This decision opened my eyes to the joys of jazz all the way to playing with top level university jazz bands through my degree path and to playing professionally on all 3 of those instruments. I was also raised on other genres outside of jazz and classical. Rock had a huge influence on me and interested me in picking up both the bass and guitar and I haven't put those down for the 15 years I've been actively learning playing and gigging on those.

I love music and will continue on this path of music the rest of my life. I've inspired so many students over the years and that has been an absolute joy for me to continue to teach lessons to anyone that is willing to take them.