Matthew Quayle, pianist and composer (BMI), joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as Lecturer in 2007.  A doctoral candidate in Composition and Theory at New York University (GSAS), he holds a BM from Oberlin Conservatory and a MM from the University of Cincinnati.  In recent years his music has been performed by Alarm Will Sound, the Arditti String Quartet, the Avalon String Quartet, eighth blackbird, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and the Southeastern Trio. He has also received commissions from the Almeida Theatre in London, the New London Children's Choir, flutist Claire Chase, saxophonist Gail Levinsky, and cellist Ashley Sandor Sidon. In 2007 his string orchestra piece Gridley Paige Road was selected as one of three finalists in the Adagio Composition Contest of the Fauxharmonic Orchestra. He composed the introduction to the Round Midnight Variations, a collection of variations by prominent contemporary composers on the Thelonius Monk theme; this work was premiered by pianist Emanuele Arciuli at New York's Miller Theater in 2002.

Quayle's research focuses on orchestration (techniques, history and aesthetics); Russian/Soviet music; and musical theater and opera dramaturgy. His dissertation will explore musical representations of power in three different orchestrations (by Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich) of the Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov.

Quayle frequently performs as a piano soloist and chamber musician. Recent collaborations have included recitals with clarinetist Deborah Andrus, cellist Jameson Platte, and flutist Elizabeth Ransom, He was also featured as a composer and performer at the 2006 Glens Falls Symphony Musicbridge Festival. In 1998 he performed his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, as winner of the Oberlin Conservatory Concerto Competition. Quayle has served on the faculty at New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine since 2002.