BIO
Dr. Matthew Mailman is Professor of Conducting in the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University, a position he has held since 1995. Dr. Mailman has had extensive and diverse experience conducting operas, musicals, orchestras, choirs, bands, and chamber music. He serves as a Music Director for the Oklahoma Opera and Music Theater Company and Conductor of OCU's award-winning Wind Philharmonic and Wind Ensemble.
At OCU, Dr. Mailman has conducted fifty operas and musicals and has led the Wind Philharmonic in thirteen world premieres, on five tours, at two OK Mozart Festivals, and at nine convention performances. He teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and coordinates OCU's Masters in Conducting program. Recent opera performances include Gianni Schicchi, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Die Fledermaus, Cendrillon, Dialogues des Carmélites, and Dark Sisters by Nico Muhly. Recent musical performances include Sweeney Todd, The Music Man, Hairspray, Rent, and Side Show. For the 2020-2021 season he music directed Monty Python's Spamalot: Socially Distant Concert-ish Version and Spring Awakening.
As Conductor/Artist in Residence at Opera in the Ozarks, he conducted Carlisle Floyd's opera Susannah in the summer of 2007 and Mozart's Cosí fan Tutte in 2008. He was one of 10 conducting fellows selected for the 2014 Baltimore Chamber Orchestra Summer Conducting Seminar with Markand Thakar and Henry Fogel and is a Clinician for the College Orchestra Directors Association. He is a frequent convention clinician and and recently presented a clinic, "Conductors….What the Heck Are We Doing?!" at the 2016 Texas Music Educators Association and the 2016 Oklahoma Bandmasters Association annual conventions. Dr. Mailman co-hosted with Dr. Michael Raiber the Oklahoma City University Wind Band Conducting Symposium for three summers.
Dr. Mailman has been an associate conductor with the Oklahoma Youth Orchestras, Inc. since 1997, and is the Music Director of the Oklahoma Youth Winds, which he founded in 2004 and which was selected to perform for the first time at the 2013 Oklahoma Music Educators Association Annual In-service and again in 2015 and 2017. His work has been published in The Instrumentalist and Teaching Music, and he is a research associate and writer for 8 volumes in the series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Southern Music published his arrangement of Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2, K. 314 for Harmonie. For five years, Dr. Mailman hosted a weekly radio program, "No Strings Attached”, on 90.1 FM KCSC Edmond-Oklahoma City/ 91.9 KBCW McAlester during which time he wrote and produced 180 new shows.
Dr. Mailman is a native of Denton, Texas. He earned his bachelor of music and master of music degrees from Northwestern University where he studied with John P. Paynter. He earned his doctorate in conducting at the University of North Texas where he studied with Eugene Corporon, Hal Gibbons, Paula Homer, and Anshel Brusilow. His father Dr. Martin Mailman was Composer-in-Residence at the University of North Texas for thirty-four years. His mother, Mary Nan Mailman, a student of Rosina Lhévinne at the Juilliard School of Music, was a concert pianist and teacher at the University of North Texas.
As Conductor/Artist in Residence at Opera in the Ozarks, he conducted Carlisle Floyd's opera Susannah in the summer of 2007 and Mozart's Cosí fan Tutte in 2008. He was one of 10 conducting fellows selected for the 2014 Baltimore Chamber Orchestra Summer Conducting Seminar with Markand Thakar and Henry Fogel and is a Clinician for the College Orchestra Directors Association. He is a frequent convention clinician and and recently presented a clinic, "Conductors….What the Heck Are We Doing?!" at the 2016 Texas Music Educators Association and the 2016 Oklahoma Bandmasters Association annual conventions. Dr. Mailman co-hosted with Dr. Michael Raiber the Oklahoma City University Wind Band Conducting Symposium for three summers.
Dr. Mailman has been an associate conductor with the Oklahoma Youth Orchestras, Inc. since 1997, and is the Music Director of the Oklahoma Youth Winds, which he founded in 2004 and which was selected to perform for the first time at the 2013 Oklahoma Music Educators Association Annual In-service and again in 2015 and 2017. His work has been published in The Instrumentalist and Teaching Music, and he is a research associate and writer for 8 volumes in the series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Southern Music published his arrangement of Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2, K. 314 for Harmonie. For five years, Dr. Mailman hosted a weekly radio program, "No Strings Attached”, on 90.1 FM KCSC Edmond-Oklahoma City/ 91.9 KBCW McAlester during which time he wrote and produced 180 new shows.
Dr. Mailman is a native of Denton, Texas. He earned his bachelor of music and master of music degrees from Northwestern University where he studied with John P. Paynter. He earned his doctorate in conducting at the University of North Texas where he studied with Eugene Corporon, Hal Gibbons, Paula Homer, and Anshel Brusilow. His father Dr. Martin Mailman was Composer-in-Residence at the University of North Texas for thirty-four years. His mother, Mary Nan Mailman, a student of Rosina Lhévinne at the Juilliard School of Music, was a concert pianist and teacher at the University of North Texas.
Nico Muhly and Matthew Mailman (cousins)
Rehearsing Oklahoma City University's production of Dark Sisters
February 13, 2017, Kirkpatrick Auditorium, Oklahoma City University
Rehearsing Oklahoma City University's production of Dark Sisters
February 13, 2017, Kirkpatrick Auditorium, Oklahoma City University