Matthew Haakenson
Matthew Haakenson is a Lecturer of Music at Stetson University where he teaches courses in theory, aural training, and functional keyboard. Matt received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wisconsin Lutheran College in 1996 and a Master of Music degree from the University of Arizona in 1999. Dr. Haakenson completed the Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky in 2008.
One of the newest additions to the faculty at Stetson's School of Music, Matt previously served as a teaching assistant at the University of Arizona where he studied theory under Edward Murphy and organ under Pamela Decker and at the University of Kentucky where he studied theory under Kate Covington, Charles Lord, Richard Domek, Kevin Holm-Hudson, and organ with Schuyler Robinson. His article, "Two Spanish Brothers Revisited: Recent Research Surrounding the Life and Instrumental Music of Juan Bautista Pla and Jose Pla," was published by Oxford University Press in Early Music in February 2007. Matt resides with his wife, Rana, in DeLand, Florida.