Biography
Photo Credit: Monte Photeaux
Matt SanGiovanni is a versatile guitarist and multi-instrumentalist whose interests span across many genres including rock, pop, blues, country, 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 also received his master's degree in Music Production from Berklee's online programs.
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 developmental readings to Broadway and has performed in some of New York's most well-known venues. He recently toured the world playing arenas and amphitheaters with New Orleans legend Trombone Shorty and has shared the stage with many other notable artists including Leslie Odom Jr., Todrick Hall, Mel B., Jinkx Monsoon, Aaron Lazar, John Tartaglia, Pamela Anderson, and Jay Armstrong Johnson. As a music producer, Matt has developed, mixed, and performed on multiple projects for singer-songwriters/Broadway performers, Maria Wirries and Madilyn Jaz.
Instruments
Guitar (Electric, Acoustic, Classical, Slide), Banjo (5-String, Tenor), Mandolin, Ukulele, Tres, Vihuela, Bass Guitar
Broadway/Tours
Water for Elephants (Broadway Chair)
Shucked (Broadway Sub)
1776 Revival (Broadway Chair)
A Strange Loop (Broadway Sub)
Paradise Square (Broadway Sub)
Mrs. Doubtfire (Broadway Sub)
Dear Evan Hansen (1st National Tour)
Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway Sub)
Kinky Boots (International Tour)
Chicago (Broadway Sub)
Wicked (Broadway Sub)
Aladdin (Broadway Sub)
Regional Theatre
Real Women Have Curves - American Repertory Theater
In the Heights - White Plains Performing Arts Center
1776 (Sub) - American Repertory Theater
Side Show - White Plains Performing Arts Center
Masquerade - White Plains Performing Arts Center
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 Theater (Oberon)
Carousel - American Repertory Theater (Oberon)
Recording Credits
Water for Elephants - Original Broadway Cast Album (Guitar 1/Banjo)
Jesse J. Sanchez - Sueños: Our American Musical EP (Guitarist)
Madilyn Jaz - "Color" (Producer/Guitarist)
The Gag: A New Musical Thriller (Guitarist)
Carols for a Cure Vol. 21 (1776) (Guitarist)
Madilyn Jaz - Sessions for a Sick Person (Producer/Guitarist/Mandolinist/Bassist)
Maria Wirries - Summer Ends EP (Producer/Guitarist)
Sarah Anne Fernandez - "deja vu - the pop punk remix" (Guitarist)
Sam Sultan - "Howl at the Moon" (Guitarist)
Maria Wirries & Joseph Frederick Allen - "O, Holy Night" (Guitarist/Mixer)
Broadway Records - I Put a Spell on You (Guitarist)
Maria Wirries - Just Keep Singing (Producer/Guitarist/Bassist)
Maria Wirries - "Don't Love Her Anymore" (Producer/Guitarist)
Maria Wirries - "Navy & White" (Producer/Guitarist)
Maria Wirries - "Falling Down" (Producer/Guitarist)
Rock-it Science Records - Carols for a Cure Vol. 18 (Chicago) (Guitarist)
Broadway Records - Jay Armstrong Johnson Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below (Guitarist)
Ryan Amador – Seattle Songs EP (Guitarist)
The Northside - "My Anybody" (Guitarist)
Off-Broadway
Relapse: a New Musical (Off-Broadway Chair)
Vanities the Musical (Off-Broadway Chair)
Titanique (Off-Broadway Sub)
Notes from Now (Off-Broadway Chair)
The Cadaver Synod: A Pope Musical (NYMF)
Tick, Tick...Boom! (Off-Broadway Sub)
Trip of Love (Off-Broadway Sub)
New York City
Sarah Anne Fernandez: Don't Forget Me - Chelsea Table + Stage
Big Apple Circus - Theater Roncalli (Sub) - Lincoln Center
Truth Bachman: Skyward - Lincoln Center Atrium
Castrata: Muse Vol. III - Red Eye NYC
Asher Muldoon: Trunk Songs - Feinstein's/54 Below
Castrata: Muse Vol. II - Red Eye NYC
Threepenny Opera - NYU Tisch
In-Gauged: Penn State's New Musicals Initiative - Feinstein's/54 Below
Castrata: Muse Vol. I - Laurie Beechman Theatre
Maria Wirries: Black Magic - Feinstein's/54 Below
Kendall Morgan: For the Girls - Green Room 42
Driven: A New Song Cycle - Feinstein's/54 Below
SIS - Green Room 42
Luna & the Starbodies (Truth Bachman) - Joe's Pub @ The Public
54 Sings Lizzo - Feinstein's/54 Below
Broadway Rewind: Queen of the Night - Green Room 42
2021 GLAM Awards - Sony Hall
Maria Wirries: Gives You Hell - Feinstein's/54 Below
Sarah Anne Fernandez - Feinstein's/54 Below
Noah Kieserman - Feinstein's/54 Below
John Tartaglia: Better Get to Livin' - Feinstein's/54 Below
Natalie Walker: Mad Scenes - Feinstein's/54 Below
Maria Wirries - Feinstein's/54 Below
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 @ The Public
Jay Armstrong Johnson: I Put a Spell on You - 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
Other Theatre Experience
13 the Musical, Annie, Annie Get Your Gun, Assassins, Bernarda Alba, BPC Screams! (Revue), Big Fish, Brooklyn, Demolishing Everything
with Amazing Speed (Dan Hurlin), Disaster!, Dreamgirls, 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, Mamma Mia!, Next Thing You Know, Once Upon a Mattress, Pippin, Rent, The Robber Bridegroom, Rock of Ages, Shrek, Side Show, Something Rotten, Spring Awakening, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical, The Marvelous Wonderettes, The Wedding Singer, Tommy, West Side Story, The Wild Party, Working, Zombie Prom
Photo Credit: Jordan Oscar