Artists Registry

MATT SULLIVAN, Founder/Director of 2B&2C:  The Ken Cro-Ken Memorial Foundation is an oboist/English hornist, digital hornist, composer/improvisor, cultural activist and Buffet Performing Artist.  His performances have been praised by The New York Times for "gorgeously lyrical" and the New Yorker for performance/programming called the "cutting edge".  As composer, his innovative works for oboe, English Horn and digital horn, have been featured on WNYC and WQXR, and nationally on National Public Radio (NPR) and Voice of America.  Sullivan began his professional career at the age of 17 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Wind Quintet and the Miami Philharmonic at the age of 21.  Matt has been a member of Quintet of the Americas since 1980.   His electro-acoustic trio, First Avenue (1981 – 2004) was one of classical music’s only improvising trios (“Solace and adventure floating in the unforeseen” (NY Times).   Concert venues include the Palladium, Roulette, The Kitchen, CBGBs, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, The American Embassy in Kharkiv, Ukraine and others.  Matt Sullivan served as Director of both the Double Reeds Studies Program and the Woodwind Studies Program at New York University Steinhardt School’s Music Performing Arts Professions (2004 – 2022) and Princeton University (1991-2022).   Sullivan has been a Performing Artist for Buffet Crampon since 1997 and plays exclusively on Buffet Greenline Oboe.  Sullivan’s new art/performance space, 2B&2C:  The Ken Cro-Ken Memorial Foundation, is quickly becoming one of the East Village’s most exciting art/performance venues.