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Matt Schickele is a composer and songwriter from New York City.
Matt's concert music has been performed by the Da Capo Chamber Players, the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, and Trio Eos, among many others. As a songwriter, his numerous releases include The Badger Game, April/November, and Cities Filled With Lights. He also writes for and plays with the M Shanghai String Band, an acoustic old-time-music outfit. He was 1/3 of the 90s indie-rock band Beekeeper. Matt is co-host of the podcast Scopes Monkey Choir and writes for Hooray Reality and Muss My Hair. He is a graduate of Bard College, where he studied composition with Joan Tower. - 2011 Premiere: Lighthouse for mandolin Premiere: Days afield on Staten Island, for piano and vocal trio Premiere: Since 1500 for four sopranos Marymere, concert version, Manns School of Music Premiere: The Splits, for halved string instruments Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space residency Premiere of concert version of Marymere, Jackson Fire Festival, Jackson, Wyoming Recipient: American Music Center CAP grant Premiere: Silences for guitar and mezzo soprano Marymere workshop, Flushing Town Hall, NYC Premiere: Gates for viola and cello Premiere: The Barbès Piano Premiere: Variations on the American Mammal Premiere: Sutton at 40, 60x60 2009 International Mix American Opera Projects: scenes from Marymere, a chamber opera Mistranslations published by E. Henry David Publishing. Premiere: Map #1 for woodwind quintet Visiting composer, South Oxford Six's Summer in Sombor, Serbian-American exchange workshop M Shanghai String Band, The Mapmaker's Daughter (Red Parlor Records) Composer in Residence, Flushing Town Hall; Con Edison Musicians’ Residency, Composition Program Premieres: Call Without a Response, Over a Bottle of Wine, and Mistranslations Premiere: Air for Saw and Cello Five Boroughs Music Festival: a concert of chamber works and songs by Matt Schickele Premiere: Scenes From Timid Films, Da Capo Chamber Players Solo show, Edinburgh Fringe Festival Lion Air, solo acoustic album M Shanghai String Band, From The Air (Red Parlor Records) M Shanghai String Band, Up From The Ground Below (Red Parlor Records) Premiere: In Arms for mezzo-soprano and string quintet, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble Founding member, M Shanghai String Band, an acoustic originals old-time music phenomenon April/November (Muss My Hair) - 2001 Featured composer, Heavy Music for Light People, the Flea Theater, NYC The Smokers (Muss My Hair) Shakespeare settings for As You Like It, Compass Rose Theater Company Cities Filled With Lights (Feldspar Records) Music for Amnesty International exploratory website Ostrich (Beekeeper, Southern Records) Hermit/Kermit, solo album (Muss My Hair) Split Single (Beekeeper & Ida, 7” Simple Machines) Guest guitarist with Babe the blue Ox (RCA Records) for east coast/midwest/southern tour Producer, The Ida/Retsin Family Album Vol. 1 Music for film Slums of Beverly Hills (not in theater cut) Guest guitarist with Ida (Capitol Records) Anywhere Will Do (Beekeeper, Muss My Hair) Time To Lose It (Beekeeper, 7”, Feldspar Records) Stuff, Stuff II, Stuff III, solo albums (Muss My Hair) Premiere: Two Movements for Woodstock, Woodstock Chamber Orchestra Premiere: Sizzle and Bite, Hudson Valley Philharmonic Wow this was a while ago, I’m getting a little fuzzy on the details. I was in lots of bands you've never heard of. Wrote a lot of chamber music you'll never hear. You know the deal. |
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