Matt Geer (born 1996) is a British composer. His music has been performed by the BBC Singers, EXAUDI, Quartor Bozzini, musicians from the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the pianist Satoko Inoue. [1] [2]
Matt Geer (born 1996) is a British composer. His music has been performed by the BBC Singers, EXAUDI, Quartor Bozzini, musicians from the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the pianist Satoko Inoue. [1] [2]
Matt Geer was born in Hastings, East Sussex in 1996 and educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied composition under Laurence Crane and Dr James Weeks. Subsequently, he studied his PhD in music philosophy and composition at Queen's University of Belfast under Simon Mawhinney and Piers Hellawell. [1]
Geer works as an organist and, from 2015-2021, he was director of music at St Agnes, Kennington Park. [3] He works as a freelance composer and was previously composer in residence with the City Chamber Choir. His music has been performed by the BBC Singers, EXAUDI, Quartor Bozzini, musicians from the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the pianist Satoko Inoue. [1] [2] In 2021, Geer gave a TEDx talk at Queen's University of Belfast titled "Hearing Voices: how schizophrenia can teach us to listen." [4] [5] From September 2021, he was the composer-in-residence with the London Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Jack Gonzalez-Harding. [6]
Geer's compositional practice is based the listening experiences one may obtain from hearing the enumeration of maximally diverse combinatorial and permutational systems. His music engages specifically with temporal perceptions and phenomenological experience. His PhD thesis is titled, "Counting over time: approaching the enumeration of maximally diverse combinatorial and permutational systems through the phenomenology of temporal consciousness". Geer's music often employs basic primary triads to evoke semantic satiation for the listener, where familiar objects may become unfamiliar over time. [6]
In 2017, Geer was admitted into a psychiatric unit where he spent several months and was subsequently diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, an illness combining elements of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. [7] In 2018, he wrote an opera based on his hospital diaries titled Sane and Sound which was performed at the Barbican centre, the Museum of London and was part of the Grimborn Opera Festival at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston. [8] [9] [10]
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