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Young Artist in Residence Matthew Halpin — who first attended Sligo Jazz at 15 before becoming Ireland’s only Berklee Presidential Scholar — now returns as a Vienna based saxophone professor and rising European jazz star for a special reunion performance with the 2025 faculty.
Sligo Jazz Project Young Artist in Residence 2025 - MATTHEW HALPIN & SPILT MILK
Matthew Halpin: saxophone
Pablo Held: piano
Oli Hayhurst: bass
Sun Mi Hong: drums
With special guests;
Veronika Morscher: voice
Sasha Berliner: vibraphone
Joseph Leighton: guitar
Michael Buckley: saxophone
Shannon Barnett: trombone
Young Artist in Residence, Dublin-born saxophonist and composer Matthew Halpin - who first attended Sligo Jazz aged 15 before becoming Ireland’s only Berklee Presidential Scholar - now returns as a Vienna-based saxophone professor and rising European jazz star for a special reunion performance with members of the stellar 2025 faculty. Since 2013, Matthew has been composing on a regular basis for many of his own projects. His composition style is unique, distinctive and often braggadocious. Halpin's debut album "Agreements" was released in 2021 on Frutex Tracks and features the four Kit Downes, Hanno Busch, Sean Carpio and Sergio Martinez. Matthew has performed at the Blue Note and Dizzy ’s Jazz Club in New York, WDR Jazz festival, Stadtgarten Cologne, Porgy & Bess, Vienna, the Panama Jazz Festival, the Monterrey Jazz Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz festival, the National Concert Hall of Ireland, the Galway Jazz Festival, Cork Jazz Festival, Katjazz Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, the Berklee Performance Center and the Kennedy Center. He performs more frequently in bars, pubs and jazz clubs.
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Venue Information - Hawk's Well Theatre
The Hawk's Well is a 340 seat theatre in Sligo, North West Ireland. We host a diverse programme of arts and entertainments including comedy, professional and amateur drama, a wide range of music from traditional and jazz to opera, plus dance, pantomime, children's theatre and comedy.