Saxophonist, composer and teacher, Matt Clancy was an instrumental music director for several schools in Vermont. He served as president of the board of the International Association for Jazz Education, and was commissioned by the Music Teachers National Association to represent Vermont in the 2005 Quad-State Composing Competition. Clancy toured Europe in 2004 playing and arranging music with blues great Mighty Sam McClain. He passed away in 2007.