Matthew Kowalczyk is second bassoon and orchestra librarian of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra and instructor of bassoon at Augustana College. Matthew regularly performs with other area orchestras, including the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Iowa. As a chamber musician, he has performed throughout the USA and China as the bassoonist fellow of the Fred Fox Graduate Wind Quintet of the University of Arizona. Matthew maintains a bassoon studio, and his hard-working students have enjoyed success in auditions into all-state honor ensembles, youth orchestras, and collegiate admissions throughout the Midwest. Matthew has also given masterclasses, coached school sectionals, and adjudicated solo competitions in his communities in the Quad Cities, Iowa City at University of Iowa, and in the Chicagoland area.
He holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Illinois State University.