Matthew F. Reese is an American conductor and musicologist. He serves as a Lecturer in Musicology at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, where he has been on faculty since 2018. In addition to his academic work, he was most recently music director of the Washington Young Sinfonia and of the English chamber orchestra, Consortium Novum. In his three years with CN, the ensemble was active on both the concert platform and in the opera pit, with a repertory ranging from Mozart operas to Stravinsky and Strauss. He concluded his CN tenure with a charity performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for homelessness relief. 

 

Matthew has held the Music Directorships of the Oxford University Philharmonia, the Oxford University Wind Orchestra, and the Choir of Pusey House. In 2016, he was named as the first "Conducting Scholar" to assistant-conduct the St. Anne’s Camerata.

 

Matthew holds degrees from the College of William & Mary (B.A., 2013), the University of Oxford (M.Phil., 2016; D.Phil., 2019), and Yale University (M.Div., 2024). In addition to his work at Peabody, he has served as a Teaching Fellow at Yale and as a College Tutor at St Hugh's and Exeter Colleges, Oxford. Recent conducting assistantships include the Georgetown University Symphony Orchestra, the Annapolis Symphony Academy, and the National Orchestral Institute.

In 2021, Matthew went to the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music to train for the Anglican priesthood. He was ordained Deacon in December 2023 and Priest in August 2024. He now serves as Curate of St. Philip's in the Hill's Episcopal Church in Tucson, AZ.