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Matthew Barnson
Associate Professor, Composition
matthew.barnson@stonybrook.edu
Matthew Barnson composes for orchestras, choirs, string quartets, voices, chamber
ensembles, dancers, and computers. Recently, his music has been performed at Carnegie
Hall, the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Kennedy Center, the Aldeburgh
Festival, the Royal Academy of Music, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, ISCM World
Music Days, MATA, Wigmore Hall, Aspen, Heidelberger Frühling, ManiFest, the San Francisco
War Memorial, and other venues throughout the United States and Europe. His work has
been recognized with awards and commissions from the Barlow Endowment, Aaron Copland
House, NewMusicUSA, Jerome Foundation, Yale University, and the American Academy of
Arts and Letters, among others and in addition to residencies at a number of artist
colonies in the United States and abroad.
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He studied at Eastman, the University of Pennsylvania, IRCAM, and Yale with Christopher
Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, Steven Stucky, Augusta Read Thomas, Martin Bresnick, Ezra
Laderman, Ingram Marshall, and David Lang. Studies with Wolfgang Rihm at Acanthes
were brief but important and influential. Large-scale works have been commissioned
by, and performed in recent seasons by Third Coast Percussion, the Yale School of
Music, the JACK Quartet, Volti and Heidelberger Frühling. He is currently composing
works for the Dublin Laptop Orchestra, the Mivos Quartet, DuoZwei, and New Morse Code.Â
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In February, Tzadik released his album of string quartets performed by the Arditti
and JACK Quartets.Â
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Barnson teaches composition, electronic music, theory, and the history of music after
1945 and has taught at Yale College, chaired the composition and theory department
at New York’s Third Street Music School Settlement, and served as assistant professor
of composition at Trinity College Dublin.
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