Matt Murphy

For as long as Matt can remember he had difficulty sitting still. Friends, family, teachers, and perfect strangers would plead with him to stop tapping on desks, drumming on knees, (mostly his own) and stomping rhythmically. Often these people would reward him for any effort he could muster to stop the incessant drumming "for five frigging minutes!" But alas, he could not. Weirdly enough, the irritating habit once controlled to some degree, eventually proved useful as the role of the Eagleview Middle School jazz drummer in Colorado Springs where he was born and raised.
 

At Air Academy High School under the direction of Dave Filsinger, Matt was asked to sing bass for the infamous Inflatable Misconceptions, an a cappella group locally famed (very locally) for its ability to procure uncontrollable screams from even the most subdued of high school girls. He then was placed into the mixed a cappella group, Out of Blue, where he had his first real exposure to jazz, vocal and otherwise. By the end of high school he was fortunate enough to have performed as a vocalist and drummer, in events as the Colorado All State Jazz Choir, as a finalist in CHSAA, (Colorado High School Arts Association) teen angsty garage bands, various variety shows and musicals, drum-line, formal percussion circles, and as a composer of an original live score to the Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

He now attends Denver University's Lamont School of Music majoring in jazz drums and mentoring in creative writing. This being his fourth year with reality creeping closer still, he plans on attending graduate school in the future. He feels privileged with a consistent drumming, singing, gigging, and rehearsing schedule with combos inside of school and out and is excited to be applying vocal percussion to Groove Society. He also personally enjoys piña coladas, getting caught in the rain, clichés, and feels a little strange referring to himself in the third person at the time of writing.