Dylan Mattingly

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Dylan Mattingly
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Background information
BornMarch 18, 1991 (1991-03-18) (age 32)
Oakland, California, United States
Genres post-minimalism, post-rock, contemporary classical
Occupation(s)Composer
Instrument(s) cello, guitar, bass, piano, voice
Website www.dylanmattingly.com

Dylan Mattingly (born March 18, 1991) is an American composer from Berkeley, California.

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Early life

Mattingly was born on March 18, 1991, in Oakland, California. He is a member of the Los Angeles-based musical family of the Allers/Altschulers, which includes Modest Altschuler, Eleanor Aller, Leonard Slatkin, and Judith Aller, among others. His grandmother was the painter Gladys Aller. His father is the poet George Mattingly.

Mattingly holds a BA in Classics and a BM in Music Composition from Bard College & Conservatory of Music, where he studied with George Tsontakis, Joan Tower, John Halle and Kyle Gann. [1] He holds an MM in Music from the Yale School of Music where he studied with Martin Bresnick, Christopher Theofanidis, and David Lang. [2]

Career

Mattingly at Bard College in 2011 Dylan Mattingly.jpg
Mattingly at Bard College in 2011
Dylan Mattingly playing piano at the Chapel of the Chimes during the Pauline Oliveros memorial, 2016. Dylan Mattingly playing piano at the Chapel of the Chimes.jpg
Dylan Mattingly playing piano at the Chapel of the Chimes during the Pauline Oliveros memorial, 2016.

Mattingly was the co-director of Formerly Known as Classical in San Francisco for two years [3] —a youth-run new music organization which played only music written within their lifetimes, and is currently the co-artistic director and cellist of Contemporaneous, a new music ensemble based in New York “dedicated to performing the most exciting music of this generation.” [4] Contemporaneous has released an album on INNOVA Records, entitled Stream of Stars—Music of Dylan Mattingly. [5]

Various performance groups have featured Mattingly's work, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and the Berkeley Symphony. Several solo artists and small ensembles have performed his work as well, including Soovin Kim, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Sarah Cahill, Geoffrey Burleson, Mary Rowell, Other Minds, Symphony Parnassus, the Da Capo Chamber Players, and the Del Sol String Quartet. [1]

Mattingly has received commissions from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the Ojai Music Festival, Zofo Duet, & the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (2016); , pianists Sarah Cahill & Kathleen Supove (2015); Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music & Contemporaneous (2014); The Berkeley Symphony, Del Sol Quartet, John Coolidge Adams and Deborah O’Grady for the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra (2012).

Stranger Love, a six hour opera for 28 musicians, 8 singers, and 6 dancers, written together with a writer Thomas Bartscherer, premiered in May, 2023 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. It was directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, conducted by David Bloom and performed by Contemporaneous ensemble. [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Dylan Mattingly | LA Phil". www.laphil.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-01.
  2. "new music for orchestra Archives - Yale School of Music". Yale School of Music. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  3. Serinus, Jason Victor (August 1, 2009). "The Monthly – Up Front August 2009 :: Youthful Composure | Two gifted Berkeley teens take an unusual musical journey. | By Jason Victor Serinus".
  4. "Home". contemporaneous.org.
  5. "Stream of Stars - Music of Dylan Mattingly by Contemporaneous & David Bloom". iTunes . April 2012.
  6. 1 2 Barone, Joshua (22 May 2023). "Review: 'Stranger Love' Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  7. Woolfe, Zachary (May 15, 2023). "A Six-Hour Opera Goes On for One Euphoric Night Only" via NYTimes.com.

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