A founding member of the acclaimed music group Maivish, Matthew began his professional career touring with Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble, including a run in the original London production of Riverdance. He has been a featured performer and teacher at the Dublin Dance Festival, the Augusta Heritage Center, and the Aulnay All Blues Festival in Paris, and for many years co-Directed Good Foot Dance Company with his partner Emily Oleson, where the two created unique pieces of “trad dance theatre.”
Matthew’s musical works include CyberTrad, an acclaimed 2016 recording project of which the Irish Echo wrote, “Outstanding… Olwell is an artist with a keen vision.” A 2017 graduate of Davis & Elkins College with a degree in Multimedia Performance, Matthew completed an MFA in dance at Temple University in 2020, and currently resides in Virginia where he is learning the craft of flutemaking at Olwell Flutes, studying with his brother Aaron and father Patrick Olwell.
