Team

Matt focuses on finding creative solutions to challenges. His enthusiastic ability to solve complex design issues has proven to be a key factor in the success of his projects. Clients appreciate Matt’s ability to communicate highly technical processes in an understandable manner.

With Jaffe Holden Since 2010 – In The Industry Since 2005

Matt provides clients with acoustic designs that achieve high levels of acoustic excellence. He has successfully completed projects on a wide variety of facilities including performing arts centers, academic learning environments, museums, film centers and archives, high-end residences, corporate offices, recording studios, and media rooms.

An extensive background as a musician and a composer, coupled with Matt’s expertise in recording engineering, supplement his ability to develop solutions that benefit clients and audiences. Matt earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in audio arts and acoustics from Columbia College Chicago. His program at Columbia combined technical theory with real world application and was taught by professors who were active in the acoustic consulting industry.

Projects

Highlights from his project work include the following:

• Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, CA
• Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, Casa Belongó Music and Arts Center, New York, NY
• College of the Holy Cross, Prior Performing Arts Center, Worcester, MA
• Duke University, Baldwin Hall, Durham, NC
• Duke University, The Richard H. Brodhead Center for Campus Life, Durham, NC
• George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Theater, Salt Lake City, UT
• Hobart William Smith College, Gearan Center for the Performing Arts, Geneva, NY
• Jazz Aspen Snowmass Center, Aspen, CO
• Johns Hopkins University, Theater Renovation, Washington, DC
• Harvard School of Economics, Pritzker Building, Cambridge, MA
• NBC Tonight Show, Studio 6B, New York, NY
• Princeton University, McCosh 50 Renovation, Princeton, NJ
• Mary’s College, New Academic Building, St. Mary’s City, MD
• Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, TN
• The Tianjin Juilliard School, Tianjin, China
• University of Colorado, Ent Center for the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
• University of Northern Colorado, Campus Commons Project Performance Venue, Greeley, CO
• Western Connecticut State University, Visual and Performing Arts Center, Danbury, CT