Matt Sazima is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator from Sacramento, CA. At age 9, Matt started taking piano lessons, and by the next year had started learning jazz piano under the tutelage of Dennis Kalfas, a student of Oscar Peterson. For the next several years, he played in Granite Bay High School’s marching band, jazz band, and concert band. He also studied vibraphone and piano at the Stanford Jazz Workshop for several years.