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Based online in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, The Improvisation Lab is inspired by the ideas of thinkers like John Cage, C. G. Jung, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Noam Sivan, John Mortensen, Keith Jarrett, Maria Montessori, Bill Evans, & Miles Davis, and Gestalt psychology. Learning how to make music from a natural, expressive arts tradition occurred to me when I was a student studying classical composition. I became aware that composers thought about music in a way that seemed different from classical performers. As I was taught piano from a compositional approach, I learned ear training and theory in a very natural way. After conservatory and graduate school in psychology and philosophy, I discovered improvisational jazz, which seemed to be the natural progression for my studies. Later, I became interested in free improvisational techniques, classical improvisation, and expressive arts therapy.

If you are an older beginner who just didn't find that traditional music lessons were for you, or if you would like your child to learn music from a natural, improvisational compositional approach, give The Improvisation Lab a try.

We offer:

Online lessons

One-on-one or group studio improvisational techniques

Outdoor land art improvisation

Improvisation group

Free improvisation methods

Jazz improvisation methods

Classical improvisation methods

Any instrument 

All ages

All levels

Beginner through advanced studies for trombone & piano

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About

Matthew Tyler Giobbi, Ph.D., is a musician, composer, author, and educator based in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Matthew works in improvisational music of all genres. His main instruments are trombone and piano. He studied orchestral performance with Per Brevig at The Mannes College of Music, Ivan Meylemans at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels, and with Timothy Soberick at Moravian College. His piano teachers include Paul Schocker and Agrippino Bellino.

Matthew teaches music at The Improvisation Lab in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, as well as at Saucon Valley Music Center in Hellertown, Pennsylvania, and at East-Tones Music School in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Matthew is a performance psychology consultant and coach for performing and creative artists, and an expressive arts therapist at Muse & Psyche, LLC.

Matthew has been a faculty member of the Department of Psychology, Rutgers University at Newark, since 2004. He holds an MA in psychology from The New School for Social Research in New York City and a Ph.D. in psychodynamic Media and Communications Theory from The European Graduate School in Switzerland.

 Matthew has toured in the orchestral trombone section in Singapore, India, China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Europe. Under the baton of Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Matthew was the principal trombonist of Carnegie Hall's New York Youth Symphony and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Lima in Peru.

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