Pitch This

Other Panelists

• Antony Bland

  Director of A&R
  American Recordings/Sony

• Gary Helsinger

  Director Special Markets
  Universal Music Publishing

• Jared Mendelewicz

  Vice President
  AKT Enterprises

• Rachel Levy

  Senior Vice President Motion Picture Music
  The Weinstein Company

• Jonathan Weiss

  Music Supervisor
  Bunim Murray Productions

• David Surnow

  Manager
  Solid Music Company

Occupation: Director of A&R

Company: Hollywood Records

Bio:

Matt spent most of his life in his own bands. He worked at Capitol Records for 4 years in Promotion and Marketing with bands like Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Beastie Boys, Everclear, Marcy Playground etc. He has been doing A&R for the past 4 years at Hollywood Records and worked with Queen, Los Lobos, Sparta.

The first band he signed at Hollywood was the Plain White T's. Matt just finished a record with Valora. Valora is a powerful female fronted rock band with an amazing singer named Sydnee Duran. He is also in the early stages of a band called Capra. Capra just landed the end title for a movie coming out in the fall called "Skyrunners".

Matt is originally from Kalamazoo, MI and went to college at Berklee College of Music in Boston