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, Foundation of International Education and Syracuse University London Program. He is also Programme Collaborator for the Borealis Festival in Bergen, Norway.
He studied at the Sydney Conservatorium with Bozidar Kos, privately with Michael Finnissy, and at Stanford University where Brian Ferneyhough supervised his doctorate.
- Five Monuments For Our Time performed by Gijs Kramers and the Ricciotti Ensemble.
He co-directs the Anglo/Belgian new music ensemble Plus Minus (with Joanna Bailie), and the inter-art performance series Rational Rec (with Cecilia Wee and Russell Martin), and is a member of Inter Inter Inter, a group creating events mixing performance and audience activity.
He has composed works for Ah! you sitting, comfortably, asamisimasa, Champ D’Action, Duo Vertigo, ELISION, Ensemble Offspring, IXION, Libra Ensemble, Tate Ensemble, and is currently writing works for the Ricciotti Ensemble and Apsara recorder group. He is represented by the New Voices scheme at the BMIC.
He also has an ongoing series of duos for visual performer and musician called Letter Pieces, working especially with dancer Shila Anaraki and recorder player Tomma Wessel.