Nathan R. Matthews, Associate Professor of Music Theatre, has a career that has taken him across North America as a music director, conductor, composer, vocal coach, pianist and educator. Matthews is the composer of the music theatre work, The Count of Monte Cristo, which he wrote with librettist, Stephen Pickover, a Metropolitan Opera stage director. He is a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies, which includes his chapter, “Orchestrators in their own words: the sound of Sondheim in the 21st century.” Matthews conceived, orchestrated, arranged and music directed the new music theatre work, It Goes Like It Goes, The Music of David Shire, in collaboration with the composer.