NASA 2018 Biennial Conference Presenter — Matthew Tracy

Dr.
Matthew Tracy is active as a saxophone performer and teacher
throughout Michigan. Tracy is a recipient of both the Patricia A.
Nixon woodwind scholarship and the Birmingham Musicale’s Betty J.
Hixon award. He was chosen as a winner of the Michigan State
University Honors Concerto Competition in 2012, the highest award
given to performers at the university. As a chamber musician Tracy
has found success, winning first prize at the Plowman Chamber Music
Competition, and second prize in the MTNA Chamber Music Competition.
He was a finalist in the 2012 North American Saxophone Alliance
Quartet Competition and won the silver medal in the 2014 Fischoff
National Chamber Music Competition.

Tracy
holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in saxophone performance from
Michigan State University, serving as a teaching assistant to
Professor Joseph Lulloff. He earned a Bachelors degree in saxophone
performance from Central Michigan University, studying under
Professor John Nichol.

Tracy
is on the faculty of Alma College and teaches a large studio of
private students throughout central and western Michigan.

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