About

Mattheas Boelter is an in demand drummer, percussionist and educator who works all across the Metro Detroit area. He maintains a busy performing schedule that spans multiple genres and instruments. From playing percussion with orchestras and chamber groups, to playing drumset in musicals and jazz trios. He has performed with the Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rochester Symphony Orchestra and the Oakland Symphony Orchestra. Some of the venues he has performed at include the DSO's Orchestra Hall, the Scotiabank Centre, the Michigan Jazz Festival, and Aretha's Jazz Cafe.

Mattheas holds a degree in music performance from Oakland University, and has studied with some of the most successful Metro Detroit drummers and percussionists. Some of his teachers include Dan Maslanka, Nate Winn, Gayelynn McKinney, David Zwolinsky, Mark Stone, and Patrick Fitzgibbon. While at Oakland, Mattheas won the Percussion Solo Competition, and was a member of a group that won second place in the Percussion Ensemble competition at the North American Brass Band Association Championship.

Mattheas is a drumset and piano instructor at Orion Music Studio and teaches drums and concert percussion out of his home in Royal Oak. He also has worked with North Farmington High School, Rochester Public Schools, Oakland Youth Orchestras, and the Oakland Youth Brass Band. In his teaching, he focuses on giving a well rounded education with a strong emphasis on fundamentals.