Matt Magerkurth is a Los Angeles-based cellist, bassist, composer, arranger, producer, and songwriter. As a session musician, he has arranged and recorded strings for numerous artists in Tulsa, Oklahoma, including Ken Pomeroy, Chris Combs, Kalyn Fay, and Micaela Young. He has also collaborated with established film composer Michael Paraskevas. As a performer, he frequently pivots between instruments; cello for accompanying songwriters and bass for music-directing in a live full band, as he did for a forthcoming live album with rapper Damion Shade and the Boom Bap Chorus. Additionally, he maintains a connection to Tulsa via the band Snobug, a collaboration between multi-instrumentalists/vocalists Olivia McGraw, Jordan Hehl, and Nicholas Foster.

Magerkurth's music has been performed in many parts of the US by ensembles such as Ensemble Dal Niente, Loadbang, Exit 128 Chamber Orchestra, the American Creators Ensemble, the Milna Ensemble, The University of Tulsa String Quartet, the University of Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, members of the Beo Quartet, and Ascending Duo. He has also premiered numerous pieces with Matthew Gold, Steven Beck, and members of Mivos Quartet at the Walden School, with the American Creators Ensemble at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, and in Croatia with the Milna Ensemble. As a solo cellist, he has been a featured performer at the OK Electric festival and the Oklahoma State Cellofest. When solo, he pivots between singer-songwriter performances and experimental cello sets.