Matt Griffith, clarinet

Matthew Griffith is the Associate Principal & E-flat Clarinet of the San Francisco Symphony. He has performed as guest soloist with the Boston Pops, Milwaukee Symphony, Ocean City Pops, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, United States Army Field Band, "The President’s Own" United States Marine Band, and more. In 2014 Yale University published The Algorithm of Jazz, a video following his experience performing Artie Shaw's concerto with the Yale Symphony Orchestra.

Matthew previously served as Acting Assistant Principal Clarinet with the North Carolina Symphony and the Nashville Symphony, and he has also performed with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the New World Symphony. He was a Tanglewood Music Center fellow, where he was awarded the Gino B. Cioffi Memorial Prize and returned as a New Fromm Player. Matthew was also a member of TŌN (The Orchestra Now), a graduate-level training orchestra based at Bard College.

After graduating from Yale University with distinction in both majors of music and computer science, Matthew earned graduate degrees in clarinet performance at the New England Conservatory where he received the Borromeo Quartet's Guest Artist Award. His teachers included Michael Wayne, David Shifrin, Todd Levy, and Jill Hanes. Matthew grew up in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and in his spare time he enjoys writing computer code and designing video games.