MATT
VAN BRINK is a
composer, pianist, and accordionist living in New York City. He has
received multiple ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the
Northridge Composition Prize, a residency from the MacDowell Colony
and prizes from VocalEssence, San Francisco Choral Artists,
TransforMusic, and the Delius Competition. He has performed and
recorded with Gamelan Galak Tika and the Tanglewood Music Center
Orchestra.
The recently published SONATA FOR ALTO SAXOPHONE AND PIANO was commissioned by Maria
Dessena and recorded by Noah Getz. The flute sonata DAL DOSAI was commissioned by Thomas Robertello and recorded both by
him and Paul Dunkel, and SHABU SHABU for two flutes (or flute and clarinet) was commissioned by
Rachel Ciraldo. A series of commissions from Concordia
Conservatory and the ASCAP Foundation resulted in several one-act
musicals and many works of chamber music for young performers.
Additional commissions have come from Collage New Music, New York
Youth Symphony, Celebrity Series of Boston, and Lara St. John. His
arrangements have been performed and recorded by Polygraph Lounge with
members of the Cleveland Orchestra, Polkastra, and Bowfire.
Van Brink has held positions at Hofstra University, M.I.T., Boston
University, and Concordia Conservatory. He studied composition with
Bruce Adolphe at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and with
David Dzubay, Samuel Adler, and Don Freund at Indiana University
School of Music, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree. His
graduate studies were with John Harbison and Lukas Foss at Boston
University School of Music, where he received his DMA. He studied
piano with Jeremy Denk at Indiana University. He has attended the
Aspen Music Festival, Educational Bridge Project’s Days of American
Culture in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and he is a member of BMI’s
Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshops.
More information
available at mattvanbrink.com
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