Matthew Yost grew up in Utah, where he fell in love with sacred music, hiking through deserts and mountains, and his Catholic Faith.

He attended the Catholic University of America to study Music Composition, Economics, and the Liberal Arts, which led him to discern a love of teaching. Matthew followed this love to Arizona, where he worked for eight years as a teacher and school leader in the Great Hearts network of Classical charter schools. There, he met his wife Clare, and they had their first child, Theodore.

Feeling a call to bring what he learned in public Classical education to a Catholic setting, Mr. Yost and his family moved to Utah, where he worked for two years at the Middle School Principal of his alma mater, The Madeleine Choir School then followed God’s call to become Headmaster of Chesterton Academy of Northern Utah.

Utah has also blessed Matthew and Clare with their second child, Victoria. In his free time, Matthew loves backpacking, composing, reading and discussing the great books and works of Saints, a little mixology, and really just about anything else if it's done with his family.