Welcome to
Studio V

Whatever your goals,
You are welcome here.

Whether you are a concert artist who needs better technique or to push through a block, or a complete beginner to any musical education and want to begin a relationship with music, you are welcome here.

Studio V is a professional musical teaching studio in the heart of Washington, DC, offering private instruction in piano, composition, and musicology. The studio teaches students from all over the DC region in person, and maintains students remotely in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Hartford. The studio has international students learning remotely in London, England; Frankfurt, Germany; and Dakar, Senegal.

Current and former students have included lauded recording artists, music teachers, producers, DJ's, conservatory students, international piano competition winners, and various enthusiasts of a diverse background. The Studio is a European Classical studio, in the Beethoven-lineage tradition, building a holistic and supportive musical community of learners grounded in a rigorous academic approach. Studio V is a nationally recognized private teaching studio, most recently featured in The Washington Post, in Capital One Bank advertisements, and through years of distinguished partnerships with the Johns Hopkins University, Washington Ballet, and Washington Performing Arts, among others over the years.

about Matthew j Viator

Matthew J Viator is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Mr. Viator's teachers include Christopher Theofanidis, Libby Larson, the late Nicholas Maw, Shafer Mahoney, Nancy Roldan, Cory McVicar, Gigi Reeks, and David Smooke, and private studies in etude idiomaticism with the late Leon Fleisher privately in his first year at Conservatory.

While in Conservatory, his works received premieres at the Peabody Opera Theater, the Peabody Conservatory, Isaac Stern Hall (Carnegie Hall), Steinway Hall, First Unitarian Church, Mount Vernon United Methodist Church, with commissions from NASA, NPO’s, Concert Artists, and various musicians and generous private patrons of the arts. 

Mr. Viator is the composer of a wide array of works, notably Chamber and solo works, including an operetta, Efstathios, several Piano Sonatas and Klavierstucke, String Quartets, Sacred Choral Works, Piano Concerti, a Violin Concerto, a Viola Quartet, and numerous etudes for the instruction of piano technique. In addition, Mr. Viator is the author of various books, including the textbook Approaching the Piano (2010) , an integrated pianistic / theoretical curriculum at the Piano.

Mr. Viator has sat on various boards, including the Maryland Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, the Alexandria Choral Society, and as the founding chairman of Guerrilla Music, Inc. He has sat on distinguished alumni panels for the Johns Hopkins University, lectured at Shenandoah Conservatory of Music, and guest teaches courses in Music Business at the Peabody Conservatory of Music as well as other institutions.

Mr. Viator has been featured in The Washington Post, Capital One Bank Advertisements, Distinguished Alumni of the Johns Hopkins University, among others. He regularly concertizes in private venues and concert venues in Washington, New York, and across the eastern seaboard.

Mr. Viator lives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC, with his husband, Amilcar. They are the proud parents of Ludwig, their dog, and Nimrod and Lucy, their cats. He and his husband are both active members at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Capitol Hill.

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