Matthew Inkster, D.Mus (Performance)

Matthew Inkster is Chair of the Department of Visual & Performing Arts, Professor of Music, and Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble at York College of Pennsylvania. Inkster is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician—most recently conducting honor and select ensembles in Pennsylvania, Utah, New York, North Carolina, West Virginia, Wyoming, and California. He recently conducted members of the Berlin Philharmonic in a conducting workshop in Aix-en-Provence, France. 

He has specialized in conducting the music of our time and has led ensembles on several compact disc recordings of new music on American and European labels. He has performed in 45 states and across Europe, and his performances have been broadcast on national and regional NPR and worldwide on the BBC. Inkster is active as a trumpet soloist, recitalist, clinician, and teacher. Former students hold prestigious performance and academic positions across the country and have won the National Trumpet Competition. He was for 12 years Principal Trumpet of the Symphony of the Mountains, and he held similar positions with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, the Chapman and Redlands Symphony Orchestras (California).

Inkster is the recipient of numerous honors, and he has competed in a number of the world’s most prestigious trumpet competitions: Prague Spring International Music Competition, International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition, National Trumpet Competition, and MTNA National Collegiate Artist Competition. He has been honored by students as “University Professor of the Year” and also by his peers for his “Consistent Excellence in Creative and Scholarly Activity.”