Matt Merewitz (USA)
As founder and director of Fully Altered Media (FAM) since 2007, Matt Merewitz has become known as one of the most effective publicists and digital marketers in the world of jazz and improvised music. Through FAM he offers not only album publicity but also label services, consulting...
on distribution and streaming, career guidance, social media consulting and more.
Part of Matt’s success lies in the longevity of his professional relationships. From 2008-2019, he handled publicity for pianist, MacArthur Fellow, Harvard professor and Grammy nominee Vijay Iyer. His persistent work on behalf of composer and bandleader Miho Hazama since 2015 led to a 2020 Grammy nomination for her large-ensemble album Dancer In Nowhere. Since 2009 Matt has also handled publicity for poll-winning bassist, composer, bandleader, and environmental and gender justice advocate Linda May Han Oh. He has also consulted for Dave Douglas’ Greenleaf Music since 2011.
Matt ran the PR campaign for John Coltrane’s Offering: Live at Temple University on the Resonance Records label, leading to author Ashley Kahn’s 2015 Grammy win for Best Album Notes. He has handled publicity for NYC Winter Jazzfest, Chicago Jazz Festival, Vision Festival and numerous events produced by the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance (ALJA) and Philadelphia’s Ars Nova Workshop, and overseen or consulted on publicity for top labels including ECM, Blue Note, Concord, AUM Fidelity, TAO Forms, enja, Cryptogramophone, Biophilia, Firehouse 12, Marsalis Music and others. Other celebrated clients past and present include Tyshawn Sorey, Myra Melford, Kris Davis, Nicole Mitchell, Aaron Parks, Marta Sanchez, Amir ElSaffar, Allison Miller, Anna Webber, Adam O’Farrill, Kassa Overall and more. A native of the Washington, DC area, Matt began his PR career in Philadelphia under the wing of Don Lucoff at DL Media.
He was a classical piano student from age eight, and later a saxophone student of Paul Carr. At Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh he became immersed in college radio at WRCT-FM, where he delved into avant-garde jazz for the first time, while being exposed to indie rock, experimental, electronic, hip-hop, folk, singer-songwriters, alt-country, blues, reggae and more. With this personal and professional history, Matt has gained a unique understanding of how jazz in our time came to be unconstrained by genre, embracing limitless possibilities. Every campaign that Fully Altered Media undertakes starts from this premise. Matt resides in Westchester County, NY with his wife, daughter and chocolate labradoodle, Sonny.
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