Dylan Mattingly

Early life

Mattingly was born on March 18, 1991, in Oakland, California. He is a member of the Los Angeles-based musical family of the Allers/Altschulers, which includes Modest Altschuler, Eleanor Aller, Leonard Slatkin, and Judith Aller, among others. His grandmother was the painter Gladys Aller. His father is the poet George Mattingly.

Mattingly holds a BA in Classics and a BM in Music Composition from Bard College & Conservatory of Music, where he studied with George Tsontakis, Joan Tower, John Halle and Kyle Gann. He holds an MM in Music from the Yale School of Music where he studied with Martin Bresnick, Christopher Theofanidis, and David Lang.

Career

Mattingly was the co-director of Formerly Known as Classical in San Francisco for two years—a youth-run new music organization which played only music written within their lifetimes, and is currently the co-artistic director and cellist of Contemporaneous, a new music ensemble based in New York “dedicated to performing the most exciting music of this generation.” Contemporaneous has released an album on INNOVA Records, entitled Stream of Stars—Music of Dylan Mattingly.

Various performance groups have featured Mattingly's work, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and the Berkeley Symphony. Several solo artists and small ensembles have performed his work as well, including Soovin Kim, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Sarah Cahill (pianist), Geoffrey Burleson, Mary Rowell, Other Minds, Symphony Parnassus, the Da Capo Chamber Players, and the Del Sol String Quartet.

Mattingly has received commissions from the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Zofo Duet, & the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (2016); the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, pianists Sarah Cahill (pianist) & Kathleen Supove (2015); Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music & Contemporaneous (2014); The Berkeley Symphony, Del Sol Quartet, John Coolidge Adams and Deborah O’Grady for the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra (2012).

Works

for clarinet, vibraphone, and violin. 8'

for SATB Choir, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, vibraphone, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass 8'

for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, vibraphone, harp, violin, viola, cello, bass 6'

for piano four hands 6'

for solo piano 105'

for chamber orchestra 15'

for solo piano 15'

for orchestra 15'

for 3 sopranos, tenor, 2 oboes, cello, bass, re-tuned piano, 2 percussion 30'

for string quartet 15'

for orchestra 30'

for orchestra 10'

for chamber orchestra 36'

for bassoon, violin, cello, bass, percussion 15'

Lighthouse (Refugee Music by a Pacific Expatriate), commissioned by Contemporaneous, March 2010. for amplified string quintet 12'

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano 9'

for two pianos, one tuned down a quarter-tone 20'