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A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, matt ingalls (b. 1970) is a composer, clarinetist, improviser, concert producer, computer music programmer, and new music advocate. He currently makes his home in Oakland, California, and is a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area creative music community.
matt has logged over 300 performances, and although he enjoys playing new compositions by other composers (he has premiered well over 50 new works), matt's most frequent musical activity is performing his own solo compositions for clarinet and/or computer. Taking advantage of the unique characteristics of solo performance, these works involve both improvisation and predetermined musical materials.
matt has written works for acoustic instruments, voices, computer generated tape, interactive electronics, dance, theater, and freely improvising jazz orchestra. His compositions have been recorded and performed in the united states and abroad, receiving many awards and recognitions.
In addition, matt also helps program music in Berkeley's ACME Observatory Contemporary Music Series, is a part of the production of the Transbay Creative Music Calendar, and runs sfSound.org, an organization supporting creative experimental performances of sonic art and music in the San Francisco Bay Area.
matt received a Master's of Arts from Mills College, where he studied composition with Chris Brown, Alvin Curran, and George Lewis. He received many scholarships and awards during this time, including The Paul Merritt Henry Prize, an Alumnae Scholarship, The Heller Scholarship, The Carruthers Scholarship, an Assistantship in The Center for Contemporary Music, and an election to the Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges (1996-1997).
matt holds a bachelor of music from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied composition with Karl Korte, Russell Pinkston, and Dan Welcher. He studied clarinet with Richard MacDowell. In addition to playing many new works written by fellow composers, matt was a member of The UT New Music Ensemble, The UT Wind Ensemble, and The UT Symphony Orchestra, for which it won a Downbeat Magazine award for its 1994 performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11.
In his formative years, matt studied clarinet with Donna Nossett, Keith Lemmons, and Monty Cole; was a 4 year member in Albuquerque Youth Orchestras; and sat principle chair in the 1988 New Mexico All-State Symphonic Orchestra.
matt has taught music theory as a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College. He has also taught private clarinet and composition instruction. Some of his papers are published by MIT Press. matt served on the jury panel for the 2000 SEAMUS Electro-Acoustic Music Conference.
Awards
1st Finalist in the Bourges Electroacoustic Competition [Categorie Humor - Puy 1994]
The First Annual ASCAP/SEAMUS Commission and Recording Prize [1996]
New Langton Art's "1997 Bay Area Award" for musical performance
Acceptance to June in Buffalo Contemporary Music Festival [1997]
A.H. Miller Award for Excellence in Musical Composition [1998]
Meet the Composer Fund Grant [1997]
ASCAPlu$ Award [2000, 2001]
Djerassi Artist Program Residency [2001]
Composers
Joseph Anderson, Michael Berry, Sandra Binion, Jonathon Berger, Bob Boster, Chris Brown, Ching-Wen Chao, George Cremaschi, Thomas Day, Matthew Goodheart, Will Grant, Donald Grantham, James Goode, Morgan Guberman, Frank E Henrikson, Hubert Ho, Paul Hoskin, Christopher Jones, Dan Joseph, Aurora Josephson, Brian Kane, Misook Kim, Richard Lerman, Cheryl E Leonard, George Lewis, Hugh Livingston, D. Jeffrey Lucas, Carla Lucero, Miya Masaoka, Richard Miller, Randy Nordshow, Pauline Oliveros, Brian Pearson, Larry Polansky, John Raskin, Earl Robicheaux, Scott Rosenberg, Shiu Kawai, John Shiurba, David Slusser, Rob Smith, Moe! Staiano, Peter Stopschinski, Clark Suprynowicz, Mark Wingate.