Matthew Cramer is a conductor, singer, and composer. He is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts in choral conducting at Northwestern University, studying under Dr. Donald Nally. He holds a Graduate Professional Diploma and a Bachelor of Music, both in composition, from the Hartt School where he studied with Dr. David Macbride, Gilda Lyons, Elizabeth Brown, Dr. Robert Carl, Dr. Tawnie Olson, Ken Steen, and Dr. Larry Alan Smith, and a Master's of Music in Choral Conducting from the Yale School of Music, where he studied conducting with David Hill, Jeffrey Douma, and Marguerite Brooks and voice with Judith Malafronte.

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