Matt Endahl

Matt Endahl is a jazz pianist, composer and educator. He has become one of Nashville's most in-demand pianists, performing in groups led by Jeff Coffin, Chester Thompson, Imer Santiago, Duffy Jackson, Christina Watson, Marcus Finnie, and many others. He also plays regularly with the Dara Tucker Band, Joshua Carswell, the Tyler Mire Big Band, Rahsaan Barber's Everyday Magic, and the Jason Eskridge Band. Matt has also shared the stage with legendary figures like Arthur Blythe, Jimmy Heath, Henry Grimes, David Liebman, Steve Coleman, Jane Ira Bloom and the late Marcus Belgrave.

From 2003-2013, Matt lived and worked in Ann Arbor, MI where he was a student of Geri Allen, Ellen Rowe, Stephen Rush, Edward Parmentier, Donald Walden, and Edward Sarath at the University of Michigan. He played with many groups, including the Jimmy Smith/James Hughes Quartet, Liquid Street, the Legendary Wings, and Balkan-jazz band Ornamatik. He also led his own group, Symbology (2006-2008) and was the leader of Canterbury House band Quartex (2009-2013).

In 2008 Matt was a Bösendorfer Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition semi- finalist, and from 2008-2013, he was on the music faculty at Hillsdale College. He has presented performances, compositions and research at the annual meetings of the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM). He has also performed at the International Association for Jazz Educators conference (IAJE), Jazzanooga, the International Association for Schools of Jazz meeting (IASJ), the Detroit International Jazz Festival and Ann Arbor's avant-garde music festival Edgefest.

Matt teaches at Belmont University and also maintains a private teaching studio.

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