Matt Porter began his undergraduate studies in music at Stephen F. Austin State University and completed his BA and MA at Austin Graduate School of Theology and MSLS at the University of North Texas. He now lives and works in the Waco, TX area, where he plays trombone for the Waco Jazz Orchestra and Slide Tradition, a jazz quintet paying tribute to the great trombone duet of JJ Johnson and Kai Winding. Matt also has multiple compositions published in a three-volume psalter commentary, Timeless: Ancient Psalms for the Church Today (ACU Press) and frequently composes and arranges for his local congregation.