Music and Intercultural Neurodiversity (MINd) SIG

Matt Savage has had a remarkable 20-year professional career as a jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. Diagnosed with an autism spectrum condition at age 3 and hailed as a “jazz prodigy” at 8—the year he also met and played for jazz legend Dave Brubeck—he debuted at New York’s famed Blue Note jazz club at the age of 11 and has since toured the world with performances at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center to the Monterey and New Orleans jazz festivals. Along the way, Matt has performed with a veritable who’s-who of luminaries from the worlds of jazz and beyond, including Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Terri Lyne Carrington, Bobby Watson, Chaka Khan, Neil Young, and Jackson Browne. He is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and holds a Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. He is also an award-winning composer, whose works include the score for the documentary film The Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story (2018), and he has released more than a dozen albums, including the Matt Savage Groove Experiment’s 2018 debut EP, Splash Variations.