About Dr. Matthew McClung

      Dr. Matthew McClung is a free-lance percussionist and teacher currently living in Houston, Texas.  He has performed in a diverse array
of musical styles, as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra member.  
He spent three years playing in the Grammy-nominated Honolulu Symphony, and has performed with the Houston Symphony, Houston Grand Opera, and Austin Symphony.  He has played jazz vibes and marimba with the Rusty Burge Quartet and the Blue Age Jazz Ensemble.  He has spent two months playing a Broadway musical (Footloose) in Atlantic City, and another two months in a tiny village in Ghana, West Africa, studying the music of the Ewe tribe.  He holds the first Doctorate of Musical Arts degree ever awarded to a percussionist from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and he also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.

  Dr. McClung is currently on the faculty of the Hot Springs Music
Festival, and the Principal Percussionist of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra.  He can be contacted here .