In Sunday’s (12/2) San Jose Mercury News (California), Richard Scheinin writes, “Dylan Mattingly, 21, is among the most successful young composers in the U.S. Raised in Berkeley, mentored by composer John Adams, he’s hot stuff—composing works for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (last summer) and now for the Berkeley Symphony (Dec. 6) and Del Sol String Quartet (Dec. 8). … He plays cello with Contemporaneous, a group he co-directs at the Bard College Conservatory of Music in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. It recently recorded a CD of his music, ‘Stream of Stars: Music of Dylan Mattingly.’ He is pursuing a joint degree in music composition and classics, specializing in ancient Greek. And, yes, he is named after Bob Dylan.” Mattingly tells Scheinin that Invisible Skyline, his new piece for the Berkeley Symphony, “ ‘is sort of a celebration of stories and our ability to not just to create stories … but to believe in them and to pour our hearts and ourselves into these stories. Whether it’s the ‘Aeneid’ or ‘Battlestar Gallactica’—or I even think of a single baseball game as a story, because what happens matters to some part of you. … I have a lot of things in this piece I’ve never done before, which is why I’m excited to hear them, and also slightly frightened.’ ”
Posted December 3, 2012
