Leader of the Alex Mathias Quartet (recently awarded 'Best Young Band' of Cork Jazz Festival 2010), Mathias has been making quite an impression on the Irish Jazz scene. Since graduating as a scholarship student with a degree in ‘Professional Music’ from the prestigious Berklee College Of Music and studying under some of the world’s top musicians including saxophonists such as George Garzone and Joe Lovano, he has built himself a short but extensive career taking him to over a dozen countries ...