Matt Dwonszyk is an active NYC bassist, composer, arranger and educator with a Masters in Jazz Performance from Purchase College. 

Matt Dwonszyk has performed with Steve Davis, Abraham Burton, and Larry Willis. With the Purchase College Big Band, Matt performed at the Blue Note with Terrell Stafford and at Dizzy’s Coca Cola Club with Steve Turre. 

As a sideman, Matt is on Josh Bruneau’s cd “Bright Idea” recorded live at Smalls Jazz Club as well as Jovan Alexandre’s cd “Collective Consciousness”. He was musical director/arranger for South African vocalist Nonhlanhla Kheswa’s cd “Meadowlands, Stolen Jazz” recorded live at Joe’s Pub and is also featured on June Bisantz’s cd  “It’s Always You”.

In 2010, Matt was awarded in Down Beat for Original Song / Outstanding Performance and was award again in 2013 for his arrangement of “What A Wonderful World”. He was accepted to the 2015 Bosyie Lowery Jazz Living Residency for his original compositions. 

Matt has taught part time at the University of Hartford, Greater Hartford Academy or Performing Arts, Simsbury Arts Academy, and the Artist Collective. He has provided services as a bass ringer at Trinity College, Litchfield Jazz Camp, and the Pat Metheny National Guitar Workshop.

Growing up Hartford, CT, Matt’s music education began at the Greater Hartford Academy of Performing Arts and the Artist Collective. He graduated from the Hartt School of Music in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree and from Purchase College in 2015 with a master’s degree, both in jazz performance. He studied with Nat Reeves, Steve Davis, Todd Coolman and John Faddis.

Through the Greater Hartford Academy of Performing Arts, Matt performed at the JVC Jazz Festival in NYC and the Baikal Jazz Festival in Yakutsk, Siberia. He has performed at the NYC Winter Jazz Festival, Litchfield Jazz Festival, Hartford Jazz Festival, New Haven Jazz Festival and the Jazz & Colors Festival at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matt has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C apart of the VSA International Young Soloists and performs frequently around New York City.


The artistic scope of renowned saxophonist, composer, painter, and poet Oliver Lake’s half-century-long career is unparalleled. An extensive resume of his collaborations includes work with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Flux String Quartet, Bjork, Lou Reed, A Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Me’shell Ndegeocello, Anthony Braxton, James Blood Ulmer, William Parker, Vijay Iyer, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille and a veritable who’s who of the jazz vanguard. Oliver’s efforts extend far beyond the music, with his creation of the non-profit Passin’ Thru organization, becoming a mainstay at Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum, publishing two books of poetry and frequently producing visual artwork for exhibitions across the country.

Lake’s breadth of disciplines can be traced back to his formative years with the Black Artists Group, the innovative St. Louis collective of musicians, poets, dancers and painters he helped architect over 35 years ago. As a co-founder of the internationally acclaimed World Saxophone Quartet (with fellow luminaries David Murray, Julius Hemphill and Hamiet Bluiett), Oliver firmly established himself in the “Loft” jazz scene of the 1970’s in New York City, and has since produced a body of work that is both expansive and versatile enough to avoid falling solely into the trappings of the “avant-garde” and “free” labels. The fact that his work can stand on compositional merit alone, all while he has etched a place for himself as one of the elite saxophone players and improvisers of recent times, is a testament to Oliver Lake’s stature as an artist.

Lake’s output as an exacting and unequivocally original composer has long been celebrated, highlighted by commissions awarded from the Library of Congress, the Rockefeller Foundation ASCAP, the International Association for Jazz Education, Composers Forum and the McKim Foundation. He has been the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and was also presented with the Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award at the Kennedy Center in 2006.

In 2014, Oliver was honored with what is arguably the greatest recognition of his artistry and vision to date, becoming one of only nineteen grantees appointed for the prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award, a multi-year grant awarded to American artists in the fields of jazz, theater and dance. 

A trailblazer through and through, Oliver Lake continues to produce in the vociferous, uncompromising way he only knows how to, currently immersed in the work of such adventurous ensembles as the Oliver Lake Organ Quartet, Oliver Lake Big Band and Trio 3.

For more informations, visit oliverlake.net & facebook.com/oliverlakejazz


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Vanguard Records, part of Concord Bicycle Music’s Fantasy Label Group, is one of the world’s leading independent record labels. Its eclectic roster of quality artists includes Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Switchfoot, O.A.R., Flogging Molly, Parachute, Sallie Ford, Matt Nathanson, Chris Isaak, Barenaked Ladies, Greg Laswell, Trevor Hall, Indigo Girls, and more. It’s rich history of catalog artists features Levon Helm, Merle Haggard, Joan Baez, Mindy Smith, Buddy Guy, Big Mama Thornton, Junior Wells, John Fahey, to name a few.

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