Now in his sixteenth season as Music Director of the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Choir and second season as Music Director of the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, MATTHEW SAVERY enjoys a rapidly expanding reputation for his multi-faceted career as an electrifying performer, dedicated orchestra builder and charismatic teacher.

Matthew Savery’s current season is highlighted by return engagements with Turkey’s Presidential Symphony Orchestra. Summer 2010 includes his seventeenth engagement with the Greater Bridgeport Symphony.

In addition to his duties with the Bozeman Symphony, where his innovative subscription, family and children's programming earns consistent praise - and sold-out houses,  Matthew Savery regularly offers the state's schools a "Conductor in Residency" program that, for the past several seasons has accounted for dozens of hours per school year. He is much in demand as both a competition adjudicator and an in-school clinician, and has guest conducted throughout the region: The Nutcracker with the Montana Ballet; Annie, Damn Yankees and Guys and Dolls with Montana Theatreworks. Until 1999, Mr. Savery also served five seasons as Music Director of the Butte Symphony Orchestra and Chorale. 

A native of Western Massachusetts, just "down the road" from the famed Tanglewood Music Festival, Matthew Savery graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and received his Master of Music Degree from the University of Michigan, where he was the recipient of a Teaching Assistantship to the prestigious studio of Gustav Meier and to which he returned in 2001 and 2006 as a Visiting Guest Lecturer. In addition to Mr. Meier, his principal teachers have been Pascal Verrot and Frank Battisti.   

While at the University of Michigan, Matthew Savery was the founding Music Director of the University Campus Chamber Orchestra. Subsequently, he served as Music Director of the Comic Opera Guild of Ann Arbor, Massachusetts' Stockbridge Sinfonia and the Tecumseh Orchestra in Michigan. He has also led performances with the Boise, Dayton, Fort Wayne, Long Island and Naples philharmonics, El Paso, Greater Bridgeport, Greater Lansing, Lake St. Clair, Quad City, Saginaw Bay, Sioux City, Springfield (MA, MO and OH), South Dakota and Virginia symphony orchestras, Missouri Chamber Orchestra, Cape May Music Festival, Canada’s Victoria Symphony, and Turkey’s Presidential Symphony Orchestra. In June, 2001 he made a notable debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, opening its acclaimed summer series at Conner Prairie. Mr. Savery was a member of the first class of the International Institute for Conductors in Kiev, Ukraine, and has led that country's National Symphony Orchestra in public performance.

Matthew Savery is a recipient of the Eugene and Sadie Power Award for the Performing Arts. In October 1998, he and the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra were the subjects of a special feature on "CBS Sunday Morning."

"Throughout, guest conductor Matthew Savery was a fascinating showman.A conductor par excellence, he's a performer with pizzazz at the same time heinspires the orchestra into stellar playing."
CONNECTICUT POST

"Matthew Savery led the orchestra in the opening selection, which sparkled with a clarity that brought to mind the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Sir Georg Solti. This young conductor leads with an energy and enthusiasm that commands respect, attention, and accuracy."
LONEPEAK LOOKOUT (Montana)

"As for Matthew Savery, he is a wonderful addition to the community. He had the orchestra and the audience in the palms of his expressive hands."
BOZEMAN DAILY CHRONICLE

"The Bozeman Symphony plays every subscription program to an audience that is equal to about 3% of its Metropolitan Area's total population. This is an astounding figure - I am not aware of any other orchestra that could make such a claim."
HENRY FOGEL, President
American Symphony Orchestra League