Matthias Krüger

About Matthias Krüger

Matthias Krüger was born in Ulm in 1987 and grew up in Brussels and Trier. He studied composition and Romance languages in Cologne, Paris (Sorbonne, IRCAM), and New York (Columbia University), and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater.
He has received numerous prizes, including the Prix Chevillion-Bonnaud from the International Piano Competition in Orléans and second prize in the Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin, as well as scholarships from the DAAD, the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the city of Cologne’s Bernd Alois Zimmermann Scholarship, and the Deutsche Bank Foundation’s Akademie Musiktheater heute. Krüger was nominated for the Gaudeamus Award in 2018, the Busoni Composition Prize in 2021, and several times for the North Rhine-Westphalia Young Artists Award. His research and artistic activities have taken him to Istanbul, Paris, Venice, Montreal, and New Zealand.
Matthias Krüger’s music has been performed in Europe, Israel, North America, China, and Japan by ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the ensembles Recherche, Ascolta, Aventure, Plural Ensemble (Madrid), and Meitar Tel Aviv at festivals such as the Donaueschingen Music Days (Next Generation), ECLAT, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Warsaw Autumn, Musica Electronica Nova Wroclaw, Acht Brücken Cologne, Festival de l' Royaumont, Nuova Consonanza Rome, and the Shanghai New Music Week in venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, and Carnegie Hall in New York.
Krüger’s first portrait album, ain’t nuthin‘ but fairy dust (WERGO, 2021), was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award. He has also participated in numerous radio productions. For several years, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Musicology and Sound Studies at Bonn University and has taught music theory and computer music at the Conservatoire de Clamart near Paris since 2024. He also regularly gives lectures on his music at numerous international institutions.
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