As leader or co-leader

Selected credits as sideman, featured artist or producer

Film and television

Theater, audio drama and sound walks

Music direction and production

• Musical director, Hand Forged Fiction and Variety Life Productions
• Musical director, Duane Park supper club, New York (2016–2020)
• Performer, composer and music director, Music From The Sole
• Musical director, Gatsby to Glam, Cirque-tacular (2018)
• Collaborator with bassist Alan Hampton (since 2000), including the True Love score (2005) · signature artist, PremiumBeat · composes as Sonny Lauderdale
• Co-founder, Open Fuse, music and sound branding studio, Brooklyn (2006–2009) · client: The Leading Hotels of the World
• Founder and artistic director, BYNK Records (2012–present) · producer of every release · distributed by The Orchard

Living Sound, solo and site-responsive

• St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, New York (2025)
• Guild Hall, East Hampton · Cliffs of Moher, Ireland · Cape Town, South Africa
• Origin: 108 Leonard, New York, after a Hess Is More performance at the Clocktower Gallery

Selected venues and stages

• Ronnie Scott's, London (two weeks, 2005) · Blue Note, New York (multiple weeks) · Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen (3 sold-out shows with Hess Is More, 2010) · Montreal Jazz Festival · DC Jazz Festival · Burlington Discover Jazz Festival (Matt Parker Trio, 2016) · Kennedy Center · Apollo Theater · Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Colorado · Birdland · Symphony Space, New York · Blues Alley, Washington, DC · Jazz Alley, Seattle
• Dance stages: The Joyce Theater, New York (Dorrance Dance, Dec 2022) · Jacob's Pillow, Ted Shawn Theatre (Dorrance Dance, July 2023) · SummerStage, Central Park (2023) · Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa · Rialto Center for the Arts, Atlanta · Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis · Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo (Dorrance Dance tour, 2023) · Institute of Contemporary Art (Subject:Matter, 2023)
• With Music From The Sole: House Is: Open / Going Dark at the Guggenheim (Peter B. Lewis Theater) (2025), Guild Hall (Aug 2025), Boston Celebrity Series (Oct 2025), Joe's Pub (Mar 2026), Reg Lenna Center for the Arts (2026) and Jamestown Dance Festival (Sept 2026) · ao vivo at Nublu (May 2025) and Joe's Pub (Mar 2026)
• Carnegie Music Hall, Carnegie, PA (2025) · The Side Door, Old Lyme · Smalls · Smoke · Zinc Bar · (Le) Poisson Rouge · Joe's Pub and Birdland (with Casey Abrams)
• Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (Hess Is More, 2024) · Sam First, Los Angeles (Pat & Tap, Jan 2019) · National Sawdust, Brooklyn · Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center · The Stone (Billy Fox, 2011) · Mingus Big Band, Jazz Standard · BAM Cafe
• New works by composer Anna Clyne: Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall (2004) · Cornelia Street Cafe, Monkeytown and Roulette (Elementary Electricity), with The Curly Wurlies (2007) · American Composers Orchestra, Composers Outfront! (2008)
• Residencies: The Gazebo, New Orleans, daytime sets six days a week with a quartet (summer 1997) · The Box, New York, month-long runs, solo and with Jimmy "Taps" Sutherland · Jacob's Pillow, with Dorrance Dance and Music From The Sole · Kaatsbaan, Tivoli, NY, with Dorrance Dance (2022) · Nublu and the Clocktower, with Hess Is More · Duane Park, weekly for more than a decade · Coco 66, Brooklyn, weekly with Twos and Fours, all original music (2008–2014) · The Slipper Room
• New York Burlesque Festival · Burlesque Hall of Fame · Miss Exotic World · Miss Coney Island · Vermont Burlesque Festival

Touring

• Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau · two years, national and international
• Hess Is More (2010–present; Scandinavia, 2010) · Postmodern Jukebox (2017–2019, 2022, 2024) · Dorrance Dance, 45th & 8th (2022–23) · Sara Niemietz
• The Candy Shop Boys, Dos Equis Bazaar Noir tour, produced by Mirrorball (July to Aug 2013: Los Angeles, San Diego, Scottsdale, Austin, Houston, Miami, Atlanta) · Dos Equis Masquerade, Los Angeles (Oct 2013)

Ensembles

• Leads Living Sound · Matt Parker Trio · Matt Parker Quartet · Worlds Put Together · Reeds and Bass · Piano and Winds
• Co-leads Twos and Fours (since 2008) · Pat & Tap, with Alan Hampton (since 2019) · The Barn
• Member Sean Nelson Jazz Orchestra (lead tenor) · Hess Is More (since 2010) · Music From The Sole · Dorrance Dance · Abreu Latin Jazz · The Hall Monitors · Tubby · Billy Fox's Blackbirds & Bullets · Foldersnacks · Aaron Marcellus Collective · Reggie Watkins groups (since 2003) · Murray Hill (comedian)
• Performed with Ariana Grande · Phil Woods · Dr. Lonnie Smith · Orrin Evans · Bridget Everett · Jeff Hiller · Casey Abrams · Sara Niemietz · Anna Clyne

"Restlessly inventive... an album-maker to keep tabs on." DownBeat

"Recalling the multi-horn approach of Rahsaan Roland Kirk while embodying his own tireless explorative spirit." DownBeat

"A fully formed artist, one with his own unique voice and singular vision." All About Jazz

"A warmly swinging showcase for his breathy, Ben Webster-esque flow." Ottawa Citizen

"Straightahead or on the edge, saxophonist Matt Parker welcomes listeners with warmth and wit." JAZZIZ

Feature: JAZZIZ, by Bob Weinberg (2016)
Podcast guest: Craig's List with Craig Cackowski and Carla, Episode 48, The Silence of the Lambs · listen

• Mentor, William H. Hall High School, West Hartford (2021–present)
• Teacher and mentor, Jazz Standard Youth Orchestra, New York, students ages 12 to 18 (from 2003)
• Master classes at universities and schools, many on tour with Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau · Jazz in July, UMass Amherst (July 12, 2016)

• The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, New York · studied with Jane Ira Bloom, Reggie Workman, Junior Mance and Charlie Persip
• Florida International University, Miami (one semester) · New World School of the Arts, Miami
• Private study with Barry Harris and Gary Campbell · mentored by Jimmy Cavallo

• Grammy Voting Member, Recording Academy · ASCAP, writer and publisher · Chamber Music America · D'Addario Woodwinds artist (featured 2024) · TM Custom Saxophones · Dejacques