Matthew Pellegrino

Matt Pellegrino is the Lead Composition and Songwriting teacher at Usdan. I started Usdan in 2011 playing oboe in the band with Mr. Schecher as a Music Staff Intern, after which I continued to work at Usdan as a Band Assistant until 2017. Throughout the year, Matt teaches music theory at New York University Steinhardt and writes new music for bands, orchestras, and traditional Korean ensembles. These days much of his work is about Korean music, so I often get to travel to Korea for concerts, which is one of his favorite parts of my job as a composer. A fun fact about Matt is that he has three cats named Gnocchi, Meera, and Wally.