- Dylan Mattingly
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Dylan Mattingly 
Mattingly at Bard CollegeBackground information Birth name Dylan Mattingly Born 1991 Origin 
California, United StatesGenres indie-classical, post-minimalism, American folk, post-rock, contemporary classical, blues Occupations Composer, Performer Instruments cello, guitar, bass, piano, voice Website dylanmattingly.com Dylan Mattingly, born March 18, 1991 in Oakland, California is an American composer, conductor, cellist, pianist, bassist, guitarist, and singer from Berkeley, California. His music draws from a diverse range of styles and musicians, and he himself says that he "is influenced alike by John Coolidge Adams, Olivier Messiaen, Magnus Lindberg, Joni Mitchell, and the old American blues and folk field recordings of the Lomaxes."[1] Mattingly was the co-director of Formerly Known as Classical for two years[2]—a youth-run new music organization which played only music written within their lifetimes, and is currently the co-director of Contemporaneous, a youth-run new music ensemble based in the Hudson Valley of New York.
On September 24th, 2011, Contemporaneous presented the world premiere of Mattingly's Atlas of Somewhere on the Way to Howland Island, a forty-minute work for chamber orchestra inspired by Amelia Earhart's final journey, and about which he writes "Atlas of Somewhere on the Way to Howland Island is for all those voyagers between horizons; for those—past and present—who have flown into storms, for those floating dreamscapes out beyond the curvature of the sunrise, for those that reach escape velocity, for when even your endless arms can’t rearrange the constellations."[3]
Sarah Cahill, a consistent advocate of Mattingly's work, and who performed his solo piano piece Night 3 at the Other Minds New Music Séance 2008 says of Mattingly, "Dylan is inspired by a diverse range of music including the blues, Bob Dylan, jazz, and the improv music that he himself performs. With many composers, it’s an awkward fusion of classical and pop music, but Dylan makes it work. You get the sense he approaches these disparate idioms from the inside rather than from the outside."[4] Recently, Mattingly's work for large orchestra Homeward Angel (Music for a Soundtrack to Clouds) was premiered by the Symphony Parnassus under the direction of Stephen Paulson. The work was called "a fascinating mix of postminimalistic, trance-music tinged, John Adamsesque, very "new" and easily accessible music — so boldly and creatively eclectic that it appears entirely original..." by the San Francisco Classical Voice.[5] Mattingly currently attends the Bard College Conservatory of Music, where he studies with George Tsontakis, Joan Tower, and Kyle Gann. Mattingly is also a member of the multi-instrumental free-jam folk trio Ghosts of Electricity, based in Berkeley, California.
Mattingly has also previously studied composition with Katrina Wreede, Yiorgos Vassilandonakis,and David Tcimpidis, and conducting with David Ramadanoff & Nathan Madsen. He is a singer and guitarist with the Bay Area funk/blues band, Funky Bus & the U-Turns, and a member of the inprov string quartet, the Superdelegates.[6]
Mattingly is also a pitcher, painter, and a playwright.
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Categories:- Musicians from California
- People from Berkeley, California
- American composers
- American musicians
- Living people
- Postminimalist composers
- 1991 births
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