Matt trained under the mentorship of Nicole DiCicco-Cavalloro, Paula Meola, and Joan Phelps Palladino and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dean College's Joan Phelps Palladino School of Dance.  He has worked with teachers and choreographers such as Michelle DaSilva-Ball, David Drummond, Jay T. Jenkins, Stacey McIntyre, Nailah Randall-Bellinger, Jill Silverman, and Bryan Steele. 

His choreography has been performed in college performances, competitions, and recreational performances throughout the New England area.  His pieces have received high acclaim from studio directors, professionals, and audiences. He has taught, been a master teacher, and created choreography, at both the recreational and the pre-professional levels. 

Matt has been teaching, coaching, and choreographing throughout the New England area for several years. His classes focus on building strong technique, strength, and flexibility,  by building a solid core and teaching proper body alignment. The classroom atmosphere is always energetic and exciting. Matt strives to make sure every dancer receives the highest quality classroom experience possible.  His intricate choreography fuses all techniques and styes of dance, it combines jazz, modern, lyric, contemporary, and even hip hop to create cohesive, beautiful, and challenging choreography. His unique and  stimulating choreography is known to test the abilities of a true dancer by encouraging dancers to express their individuality and tell a story without words. His creative and athletic class structure and choreography extends from the philosophy that dance is truly art in motion; therefore he not only focuses to on training strong technicians but also on building artists and performers who will be able to handle any obstacle.