Matt White graduated with a B.A. in Music Performance from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. With Fight the Big Bull, organized in the Fall of 2005, Matt plays guitar and also handles the significant responsibility of composing and arranging for a band that plays predominantly original material. Matt is also the cofounder of critically acclaimed avant-folk band, the Great White Jenkins, where he plays guitar and also manages all the horn arranging duties for what has been affectionately called "a jake-legged broke-down marching symphony". In addition to these projects Matt is the founder and musical director of the Black Orchestra, a classically tinged project that features the conductor as improviser, and is founder and administrative director of the Patchworkestra, a 30+ chamber symphony that performs the works of local composers. Matt has been featured in the Richmond Times Dispatch, RVA magazine, Style Weekly, interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor and asked to speak at the influential mid-atlantic music festival Macrock. He has been called "Richmond's sound pioneer", an "acoustic boy wonder" and his groups "radically unique, surprisingly cohesive and anything but the tired rags you've heard a million times before". He is the only student of  Steven Bernstein (Downbeat Magazines arranger of the year) and has played with, or shared the stage with artists as diverse as Seamus Blake, John D'earth, Emre Kartari, Akron Family, Marissa Nadler, Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys, Of Montreal, AM/FM, and Half-Handed Clouds.