Biography
Matthew Shlomowitz (b. 1975) is a composer of concert music and performance pieces. Raised in Adelaide, Australia, he now lives in London where he lectures at the Royal College of Music and Syracuse University London Program. He studied at the Sydney Conservatorium with Bozidar Kos, privately with Michael Finnissy, and at Stanford University where Brian Ferneyhough supervised his doctorate.
- Ensemble Offspring perform Joy Time Ride for Ives
He has composed works for groups such as asamisimasa, Apsara, bESIdES, Calefax, Champ D’Action, ELISION, Ensemble Offspring, EXAUDI, Ives Ensemble, Quatuor Diotima, Ricciotti Ensemble, and an extended work titled Popular Contexts for Mark Knoop for piano and sampler. He is currently Artist in Residence with the Liege based Centre Henri Pousseur and is writing a second volume of Popular Contexts for Stephane Ginsburgh (incorporating piano, sampler, voice and physical actions) and a third volume for the Nieuw Ensemble to be premiered in November.
Matthew has an ongoing series of duos for visual performer and musician called Letter Pieces, and has formed the Letter Piece Company with dancer Shila Anaraki, recorder player Tomma Wessel, guitarist Tom Pauwels and keyboardist Mark Knoop. Shila and Matthew are developing the Letter Piece Concept for a one hour piece to be premièred at Vooruit in February 2012.
Other Projects
- Co-founded and co-directs the Anglo/Belgian new music ensemble Plus Minus
- Co-directed the Chisenhale Art Club, a monthly event series combining music, dance and live art
- Co-founded and co-directed (2005–2008) the inter-art performance series Rational Rec
- Programme Collaborator for the 2009 and 2010 Borealis Festival in Bergen, Norway.