Encounter and concert with composer Matthias Krüger
Loudspeaker concert and film projection

Encounter and concert with composer Matthias Krüger

Fri, 11/10/2023
5:30 PM Goethe-Institut Montreal

Presented by Le Vivier and Goethe-Institut 

Length: approximately 1 hour

Refreshments will be served after the concert.

mens et manus (2023)
Canadian Premiere
For 4-channel electronics (fixed media) (10')

Matthias Krüger speaks about his work and hybrid composition.

sweep over me them dusty bristles (2018/2020)
Canadian Premiere
Direction : Rikisaburo Sato
With : Ensemble inverspace, chœur Eddie Martinez/Wuppertal
Video : Rikisaburo Sato/Cologne
For five players with prepared flute, to be prepared baritone saxophone (doubling tenor), Synthesizer (doubl. piano), two drumsets, analogue-digital live-electronics (including Revox Tape Recorder) as well as body, voice and face (30')


Matthias Krüger is the recipient of the residency in new music (2023 - 2024) organized by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Groupe Le Vivier and the Goethe-Institut.

Matthias Krüger is a composer for contemporary music based between Paris and Hamburg.
Born in 1987 in Ulm (Germany), he grew up in Brussels and Trier, and studied music composition at Cologne’s Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, at Columbia University in New York City, and IRCAM in Paris, as well as French language at Cologne University and Sorbonne University (Paris).

Currently he is a doctoral candidate at Hamburg's University of Music and Theatre, researching on hybrid composition between music, dance and theatre. Between September 2023 and April 2024 he is composer in residence at Goethe-Institut of Montreal as well as a Graduate Researcher at McGill University Montreal.

He has received numerous awards and scholarships, including from DAAD, the German National Academic Foundation, Berlin’s Mendelssohn competition in 2013, Cologne's B.A. Zimmermann award in 2015, the Chevillion-Bonnaud composition award (Orléans 2016) as well as a nomination for the 2018 Gaudeamus Award (Utrecht). Residencies took and take him, among others, to Istanbul, Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris, and, in the spring of 2024, Venice. Funded by the Arts Foundation of Northrhine-Westphalia, he travelled to Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2018 on a two-month research grant to gain a deeper insight into kaupapa Māori, kapa haka (Māori action songs) and taonga puoro (musical instruments).

His music has been performed by the Klangforum Wien, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, ensemble Recherche, ensemble Aventure, ensemble ascolta, ensemble inverspace, ensemble hand werk, Ensemble BRuCH, Fukio Ensemble, IEMA ensemble, Slagwerk Den Haag and Oerknal, PluralEnsemble Madrid, and Meitar Ensemble Tel Aviv. Performances include countries all over Europe, the US, Canada, China and Japan, as part of festivals such as ECLAT Stuttgart, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Festival de Royaumont, Nuova Consonanza Rome, or the Shanghai New Music Week and in venues such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona, Centre Pompidou Paris and Carnegie Hall New York.
 
His portrait CD ᴀɪɴ·ᴛ ɴᴜᴛʜɪɴ· ʙᴜᴛ ғᴀɪʀʏ ᴅᴜsᴛ, released in October 2021 on the label WERGO as part of the series "Edition Zeitgenössische Musik/Podium Gegenwart", was longlisted in January 2022 for the German Record Critics' Award.
 
For more info, feel free to check out www.matthias-krueger.com.