Now in his fourteenth season as Music Director of the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Choir, MATTHEW SAVERY enjoys a rapidly expanding reputation for his multi-faceted career as an electrifying performer, dedicated orchestra builder and charismatic teacher.

Following a summer that included his thirteenth engagement with the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, Matthew Savery’s current season is highlighted by debuts with the Boise Philharmonic, Wyoming Symphony Orchestra and Massachusetts’ Springfield Symphony Orchestra, as well as a pair of re-engagements with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra.

In addition to his duties with the Bozeman Symphony, where his innovative subscription, family and children's programming earns consistent praise - and sold-out houses,  Matthew Savery regularly offers the state's schools a "Conductor in Residency" program that, for the past several seasons has accounted for dozens of hours per school year. He is much in demand as both a competition adjudicator and an in-school clinician, and has guest conducted throughout the region: The Nutcracker with the Montana Ballet; Annie, Damn Yankees and Guys and Dolls with Montana Theatreworks. Until 1999, Mr. Savery also served five seasons as Music Director of the Butte Symphony Orchestra and Chorale. 

A native of Western Massachusetts, just "down the road" from the famed Tanglewood Music Festival, Matthew Savery graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and received his Master of Music Degree from the University of Michigan, where he was the recipient of a Teaching Assistantship to the prestigious studio of Gustav Meier and to which he returned in 2001 and 2006 as a Visiting Guest Lecturer. In addition to Mr. Meier, his principal teachers have been Pascal Verrot and Frank Battisti.   

While at the University of Michigan, Matthew Savery was the founding Music Director of the University Campus Chamber Orchestra. Subsequently, he served as Music Director of the Comic Opera Guild of Ann Arbor, Massachusetts' Stockbridge Sinfonia and the Tecumseh Orchestra in Michigan. He has also led performances with the Dayton, Fort Wayne, Long Island and Naples Philharmonics, El Paso, Greater Bridgeport, Greater Lansing, Lake St. Clair, Quad City, Saginaw Bay, Sioux City, Springfield (MO and OH), South Dakota and Virginia Symphony Orchestras, Missouri Chamber Orchestra, Cape May Music Festival, Canada’s Victoria Symphony, and Turkey’s Presidential Symphony Orchestra. In June, 2001 he made a notable debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, opening its acclaimed summer series at Conner Prairie; he has also been heard at Connecticut’s famed “Summer Music at Harkness” festival.  Mr. Savery was a member of the first class of the International Institute for Conductors in Kiev, Ukraine, and has led that country's National Symphony Orchestra in public performance. 

Matthew Savery is a recipient of the Eugene and Sadie Power Award for the Performing Arts. In October 1998, he and the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra were the subjects of a special feature on "CBS Sunday Morning."

Marco Ferro
Symphonic Choir Conductor
A native Montanan, Marco Ferro was raised in Billings and has spent the last twenty-five years in Bozeman. He received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Montana State University, where he was a student of Lowell Hickman.

Ferro has been a long-time participant in the Bozeman music community. He was a teacher of choral music at Bozeman High School from 1987 to 2003. During his sixteen-year tenure, his choirs were selected twice to perform at the Northwest Choral Directors Conference. Along with his duties as choral director, he served as music department chairman. He has been a clinician, guest conductor, and adjudicator for music events across Montana and Wyoming, and toured Europe as co-director of the Montana Youth Choir. Prior to taking over as the conductor of the Bozeman Symphonic Choir, Ferro was a chorus member for eighteen seasons. He has been a guest conductor of the Bozeman Symphony three times. In addition to participating in the Gallatin Chamber Choir, Ferro has also been a member and chorus master for the Intermountain Opera. As a soloist, he has performed the Fauré Requiem and Handel’s Messiah.

Ferro’s participation in professional organization reflects his dedication to music education. He has been a member of Montana Education Association/Montana Federation of Teachers for twenty years, as well as being a representative to the board as chair of district 9. As a member of the Bozeman Education Association, he has been a bargaining team member since 1991 and is currently beginning his second term as full-time release president. Ferro is also active in the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), where he has served as Repertoire and Standards Chair and Montana State President. He continues to be on the Montana ACDA board as a past president.