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Welcome new teaching faculty Professor Matthew Hough

Matthew Hough joins the music faculty at Berkeley

Matthew Hough teaches in the Department of Music

Matthew Hough

Assistant Teaching Professor

Matthew Hough is excited to join the Music Department as an Assistant Teaching Professor after spending the last sixteen years in New York City. In addition to his work as a composer and guitarist, Hough enjoys writing about a diverse range of music subjects including musicianship, music theory and composition pedagogy. Hough’s current and upcoming projects include: Late June, a concert work commissioned by New York percussionist Ian Antonio (2016); When Summer Ends, a set of songs with original lyrics (2016); and a presentation on musicianship pedagogy at the University of Michigan’s “Ann Arbor Symposium IV: Teaching and Learning Popular Music” Conference (November 2015). For more information, visit his faculty page.