BIOGRAPHY

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 as Education Conductor with 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. Troy has guest conducted performances with the Rochester Philharmonic, Portland Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Oklahoma Virtuosi, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Salisbury Symphony, UNC School of the Arts Symphony, Carolina Chamber Symphony, 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, pops and classical artists, such as Jennifer Koh, Tai Murray, Ben Folds, Boyz II Men, Joe Lulloff, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Jeffery Biegel, Wu Man, Sidney Outlaw, Pink Martini, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Midori, Peter Boyer, Quinn Mason, Judy Collins, Texas Tenors, Anthony Dean Griffey, Eileen Ivers, The Wailers, Doreen Ketchens, and many others. 

Maestro Troy is known for innovative programming and is recognized for creating an instantrapport to help make classical music engaging and relevant to today’s audiences. Troy hascommissioned many new works, performed countless education clinics, created programs foroutreach into local prison systems, and has a long history of supporting new music andunderrepresented composers. He remains active as a violist with his string quartet and has recently performed as Assistant Principal Viola with Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theater.