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Contributor


Matthew Suttor

Composer

Biography

New Zealand born composer Matthew Suttor is the Director of the Laurie Beechman Center for Theatrical Sound Design and Music at Yale School of Drama. A Fulbright Scholar and doctoral graduate of Columbia University, Suttor’s recent work includes Don Juan in Prague, a collaboration with director David Chambers for the Bard SummerScape Festival in 2003, and in 2006 at the Mozart Prague Festival, the Guggenheim Works and Process series, and the BAM Next Wave Festival.

Matthew’s opera The Trial of the Cannibal Dog premiered at the International Festival of the Arts, Wellington, New Zealand, and was broadcast by Radio New Zealand. His dance piece I Find Comfort in Thunder for the Folkwang Tanzstudio, Essen, toured Germany. Recent concert works include Syntagma, commissioned by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music; La Prose du Transsibérien, for narrator and chamber ensemble, commissioned by the Beinecke Library; and The Eastman School of Music commissioned and premiered Buntpapier and Villancico.

Together with sound designer Daniel Baker, Matthew founded the Broken Chord Collective. Notable productions include the score for Rolin Jones’ Pulitzer-nominated play The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at the Atlantic Theatre in New York in 2005.


Composed (15)

Adagio

for solo organ


Big Red, Big Green, Big Blue

for guitar, live processing and video projection


Buntpapier

for solo organ, 7m 22s


Don Juan in Prague

arrangement with original composition of Mozart's Don Giovanni for electric string quartet, 2h


Don Juan in Prague

arrangement with original composition of Mozart's Don Giovanni for electric string quintet, 2h


He Gives What He Likes

electroacoustic, 11m 12s


I Find Comfort in Thunder

music for dance, 1h


I Find Comfort in Thunder

for solo organ and tape, 10m 46s


Plasma

for string quartet, 7m 18s


Rugwerk

for solo flute and prerecorded tape, 10m 4s


Sarrasine

a dramatic monologue with music on tape for live performer, 16m 38s


Stories

electroacoustic, 9m 8s


Syntagma

for solo organ in meantone temperament, 12m 35s


Villancico

for harpsichord and organ, 1m 58s



Arranged (2)

Don Juan in Prague

arrangement with original composition of Mozart's Don Giovanni for electric string quartet, 2h


Don Juan in Prague

arrangement with original composition of Mozart's Don Giovanni for electric string quintet, 2h



Recordings (1)