Dylan Mattingly, Co-Artistic Director

Dylan Mattingly was born March 18th, 1991 in Berkeley, California. He began playing cello at the age of 5, and began writing music at the age of 7. He currently studies composition at the Bard College Conservatory of Music with George Tsontakis, Joan Tower, and Kyle Gann. His music has been performed in such cities as Sydney, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, and numerous other locations all over the world. He has studied conducting with David Ramadanoff and Nathan Madsen, and has worked with David Tcimpidis, Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, Katrina Wreede, and John Adams, as well as taken part in the John Adams Young Composer's Program.

His work is influenced alike by John Adams, Olivier Messiaen, Magnus Lindberg, Joni Mitchell, and the old American blues and folk field recordings of the Lomaxes. For two years he was the co-director of Formerly Known as Classical, a San Francisco bay area new music ensemble consisting of young musicians playing only music written in their lifetimes.

Dylan is also a painter, playwright, and a pitcher for Bard College's first ever club baseball team. In the past he has played cello in an improv string quartet called the Superdelegates, and guitar and vocals in a blues/funk/classic rock band entitled Funky Bus & the U-Turns. Dylan is a first-year at Bard College, double majoring in music composition and classics.