Matthew Troy
Matthew Troy was named Music Director and Conductor of the Western Piedmont Symphony (NC) in 2019. Formerly, he served as Associate Conductor with the Winston-Salem Symphony and as the Music Director and Conductor of the Piedmont Wind Symphony. From 2010 - 2023, he served on the conducting staff of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, where he led over 200 performances with the orchestra on Discovery Family concerts, educational concerts, and subscription concerts on the Classics Series and Pops Series and other outreach concerts. Troy has guest conducted performances with the Sarasota Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Portland Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Oklahoma Virtuosi, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Ohio Valley Symphony, Salisbury Symphony, UNC School of the Arts Symphony, Carolina Chamber Symphony, Northern Lights Symphony (AK), and others. As an educator, Troy has worked on the conducting faculties of UNC School of the Arts, Wake Forest University, and UNC Greensboro. Troy has collaborated with many internationally renowned composers and classical artists, such as Jennifer Koh, Midori, Tai Murray, Joe Lulloff, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Jeffery Biegel, Wu Man, Anthony Dean Griffey, Sidney Outlaw, Peter Boyer, Jerod Tate, Quinn Mason, Dan Perttu and pops artists such as Violent Femmes, Ben Folds, Boyz II Men, Pink Martini, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Doreen Ketchens, Judy Collins, Texas Tenors, Eileen Ivers, The Wailers, and others.
Maestro Troy is known for innovative programming and is recognized for creating an instant rapport to help make classical music engaging and relevant to today’s audiences. Troy has commissioned many new works, performed countless education clinics, created programs for outreach into local prison systems, and has a long history of supporting new music and underrepresented composers. He remains active as a violist with his string quartet and has performed with the Winston-Salem Symphony, Piedmont Opera, Utah Festival Opera, and the Salem Bach Festival.
For more information about Matthew Troy visit www.matthew-troy.com