Biography
Matt SanGiovanni is a versatile guitarist/multi-instrumentalist whose interests span across many different genres including rock, pop, blues, jazz, funk, hip-hop, latin, metal, classical, and musical theater. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music in Boston with a Bachelor’s Degree in Guitar Performance and a minor in Recording and Production. He is also currently enrolled in a graduate program in Music Production with Berklee Online.
While at Berklee, he studied with such guitar titans as Jon Finn, Julien Kasper, David Tronzo, and Scotty Johnson among others. He performed with various groups and ensembles including the Musical Theater Orchestra and Club, the Studio Recording Rhythm Section Ensemble, the Music of the Beatles Ensemble, and the Advanced Progressive Rock Ensemble. He also worked as an accompanist for Berklee’s Voice Department and performed in Berklee’s Guitar Night Rock/Pop 2013 at the Berklee Perfomance Center.
Currently living in New York City, Matt is active across the city's music and theatre scenes. He has played for dozens of theatrical productions ranging from Regional Theaters to Broadway and has performed in many notable New York venues including Feinstein's/54 Below, Joe's Pub at The Public, Le Poisson Rouge, and The Signature Theatre. His guitar can be heard on the album I Put a Spell On You released by Broadway Records, Jay Armstrong Johnson Live @ 54 Below, Broadway Records's Carols for a Cure Vol. 18 with the Broadway hit Chicago, and Ryan Amador's Seattle Songs EP. He also produced, mixed, and performed on 3 singles and an 8-song album entitled Just Keep Singing for singer-songwriter and Broadway performer, Maria Wirries. Most recently, Matt toured the world with the Broadway musicals Kinky Boots and Dear Evan Hansen, bringing him all across the United States, Canada, and China.
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Instruments
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Classical Guitar, 5-String Banjo, Tenor Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele, Bass Guitar
Broadway/Tours
Dear Evan Hansen (1st National Tour) - (Sept. 2018 - Present)
Kinky Boots (National Tour) - (Sept. 2017 - Sept. 2018)
Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway Sub) - (June 2018 - Present)
Chicago (Broadway Sub) (Aug. 2016 - Present)
Wicked (Broadway Sub) (Apr. 2016 - Present)
Aladdin (Broadway Sub) (Mar. 2016 - Present)
Regional Theatre
The Bikinis - Westchester Broadway Theatre
Sister Act - White Plains Performing Arts Center
Once Upon a Pastime- White Plains Performing Arts Center
Jesus Christ Superstar - Winnipesaukee Playhouse
Jesus Christ Superstar - Fiddlehead Theatre Company
Aida - Fiddlehead Theatre Company
The Wiz - Fiddlehead Theatre Company
Avenue Q - American Repertory Theatre
Carousel- American Repertory Theatre
Recording Credits
Maria Wirries & Joseph Frederick Allen - "O, Holy Night" - Single
Broadway Records - "I Put a Spell on You" - Album
Maria Wirries - "Just Keep Singing" - Album (Producer)
Maria Wirries - "Don't Love Her Anymore" - Single (Producer)
Maria Wirries - "Navy & White" - Single (Producer)
Maria Wirries - "Falling Down" - Single (Producer)
Rock-it Science Records - Carols for a Cure Vol. 18 (Chicago) - Album
Broadway Records - Jay Armstrong Johnson Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below - Album
Ryan Amador – Seattle Songs EP
Other Orchestra Credits
Off-Broadway
The Cadaver Synod: A Pope Musical (NYMF) (July 2017)
Tick, Tick...Boom! (Off-Broadway Sub) (Oct. 2016 - Dec. 2016)
Trip of Love (Off-Broadway Sub) (June 2016 - Aug. 2016)
New York City
Jay Armstrong Johnson - Return of the Sanderson Sisters - LPR
Dos Divas - Feinstein's/54 Below
Heavyweights Three-man Little Shop of Horrors - Feinstein's/54 Below
Jay Armstrong Johnson - Huntington Summer Arts Festival
The Road to Oz: A Tribute to Harold Arlen - Molloy College
Actor Therapy: Erin Rice - Don't Tell Mama
A Man of No Importance (Concert) - Signature Theatre Company
Days of Rage (Reading) - The Cell
Michael R. Jackson - Joe's Pub
Jay Armstrong Johnson Halloween Show - Feinstein's/54 Below
Young Dr. Jekyll - Feinstein's/54 Below
Xanadu - Pace University
Sam Rohloff is: Preoccupied - Feinstein's/54 Below
Maggie and Jake Glassman - Feinstein's/54 Below
Jay Armstrong Johnson - Feinstein's/54 Below
Hatched: Pace University - Feinstein's/54 Below
New Musicals at 54: A Strange Loop - Feinstein's/54 Below
Young Lions of Broadway - Symphony Space
Hair - Pace University
Teeth the Musical (Reading) - Musical Theatre Factory
54 Sings Scrubs - Feinstein's/54 Below
Let's Hear it for the Boys! - The Duplex
An Evening with Padgett and Cole - Feinstein's/54 Below
#LoveStory (NYC Fringe Festival) - St. Mark's Theatre
13 the Musical, Annie, Annie Get Your Gun, Assassins,
Bernarda Alba, BPC Screams! (Revue),Demolishing
Everything with Amazing Speed (Dan Hurlin), Disaster!,
Fiddler on the Roof, Footloose, Godspell, Grease, Heathers,
Hello, Dolly!, High School Musical, The Last Five Years,
Legally Blonde, Les Miserables, Little Shop of Horrors, The
Marvelous Wonderettes, Next Thing You Know, Once Upon
a Mattress, Pippin, Rent, The Robber Bridegroom, Rock of
Ages, Shrek, Spring Awakening, The Wedding Singer, West
Side Story, Zombie Prom
