Matthew Roeder

Matthew Roeder serves as associate dean for undergraduate studies and enrollment management and summer session dean in the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music, where he is an associate professor of conducting and music education, teaching graduate and undergraduate instrumental conducting courses. For 17 years prior to his current administrative appointment, Roeder served as associate director of bands and director of the Golden Buffalo Marching Band. Before arriving at CU Boulder in fall 2000, Roeder taught instrumental music as the director of bands and performing arts department chairman at Parkville High School in Baltimore County, Maryland. In this capacity, he was recognized by the Maryland General Assembly for outstanding service and dedication to Parkville and the students in the Performing Arts Department.

Roeder maintains a robust research and creative work profile. His 2026 book, Passion from the Podium: Seven Lessons to Inspire Effective Music Rehearsals, is published by GIA Publications, and he has been published as a contributing author in multiple volumes of the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series, also available through GIA Publications. Roeder is a co-author in The Journal of Research in Music Education, Volume 57, No. 4, and he produced the CU Wind Symphony recording Of Love and Life. As a clinician, adjudicator and guest conductor, Roeder has developed an international and national presence, with numerous professional appearances in Canada, France and the United Arab Emirates, as well as across the United States, including as guest conductor of the New Jersey All-State Symphonic Band in 2016.

Roeder participated in the CU Boulder Excellence in Leadership program as well as the CU Boulder Faculty Leadership Institute. He has been honored twice with the Marinus Smith Award from the University of Colorado Parents Association and received the Residence Life Academic Teaching Award for two consecutive years. Roeder’s work with composer Jake Runestad resulted in a wind band transcription of the choral piece Let My Love Be Heard, premiered by the CU Symphonic Band in February 2018. Additionally, Roeder’s transcription of John Corigliano’s Promenade Overture was performed by the CU Wind Symphony in Boettcher Concert Hall as part of the CU at Boettcher concert in April 2018.

Roeder is conductor laureate of the Colorado Wind Ensemble, the only wind ensemble outside of academia in the Denver metropolitan area, for which he served as conductor and music director for 10 seasons (2004-14). Under his direction, the Colorado Wind Ensemble presented the opening keynote concert for the CMEA Clinic/Conference in January 2010. As music director, Roeder led the initiative to establish the Colorado Wind Ensemble Commissioning Project, resulting in published compositions by Michael Colgrass, Carter Pann and Steven Bryant.

Roeder earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in instrumental conducting and literature from the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Master of Music in music education with a conducting emphasis from the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University and his Bachelor of Music in music education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He remains an active member of the College Band Directors National Association, World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, National Association for Music Education and Colorado Music Educators Association and is a lifetime member of Phi Mu Alpha as well as an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi.

Music education  Wind conducting