Premiered by Ensemble InterContemporain (conducted by Léo Margue) on January 27, 2021 in Paris, France.

Scaling [2020, for ensemble]

Premiered by Ensemble InterContemporain (conducted by Léo Margue) on November 12, 2021 in Paris, France.

Spirals, Orbits, and Circular Paths [2021, for ensemble]

Recorded by Iñaki Bermudez on October 13, 2021 in Paris, France.

Sound engineer: Jean Viardot

Tessellate [2021, for alto saxophone]

Premiered by Ensemble Court-circuit on September 10, 2023 at the Abbaye de Royaumont as part of the 2023 Académie Voix Nouvelles de la Fondation Royaumont.

Anne Cartel, flute
Youjin Jung, clarinet
Hélène Devilleneuve, oboe
Alain Rigollet, trombone
Alexandra Greffin-Klein, violin
Laurent Camatte, viola
Frédéric Baldassare, violoncello
Jean Deroyer, conductor

Mesh [2023, for ensemble]

Performed by Ensemble l'Itinéraire on October 29, 2023 at Stanford's CCRMA. Premiered October 28 by the same musicians at UC Berkeley.

Julie Brunet-Jailly, flute
Claire Voisin, clarinet
David Chevalier, piano
Anne Mercier, violin
Lucia Peralta, viola
Myrtille Hetzel, violoncello
David Milnes, conductor

Recorded by Constantin Basica.

Split [2023, for ensemble]

Premiered by the Del Sol Quartet. 

Recorded and mixed by Nathan Corder

Fits and Starts [2024, for string quartet]

Performed by Alain Billard in the Ircam Espace de Projection as part of ManiFeste 2024

Recording: Sébastien Naves
RIM: Rémi Le Taillandier

Additional mixing by Nathan Corder

Blur [2024, for contrabass clarinet and electronics]

Premiered by Ensemble Linea at the Festival aux Chandelles, in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France, on May 30, 2025.

'Thread' was commissioned by the Royaumont Foundation with support from Christine Jolivet Erlih.

Jeremie Fevre, flute
Andrea Nagy, clarinet
Ernst Spyckerelle, violin
Laurent Camatte, viola
Johannes Burghoff, violoncello
Carolina Santiago Martinez, piano
Jean-Phillippe Wurtz, conductor

Recorded by F. Gauvenet.

Additional mixing by Nathan Corder.

Thread [2025, for ensemble]

Premiered by Alinéa on January 27, 2020 in Boston, MA.

Tyler Bouque, baritone
Xiaoyu Lin, flutes
Aleksis Martin, clarinets
Alex Garde, percussion
Ryan Jung, piano
Emma Burge, violin
Robbie Bui, cello
Matthew Henson, bass
Tristan Rais-Sherman, conductor

Flux [2019, for baritone and ensemble]

http://matthew-monaco.com

Composer/Pianist

Matthew Monaco (b. 1997) is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2022, Matthew received his master’s degree from the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), where he studied composition with Stefano Gervasoni and electronic music with Yan Maresz, Luis Naon, et Grégoire Lorieux. In May 2020, he received his Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Stratis Minakakis, minoring in music theory.

His works have been performed in the United States and Europe by groups such as Ensemble intercontemporain, Ensemble l’Itinéraire, Ensemble Court-circuit, the Callithumpian Consort, the Del Sol Quartet, the Brouwer Trio, members of Ensemble Linea, the Orchestre des lauréats du Conservatoire (of the Paris Conservatory), and others. Matthew’s music has been performed by conductors such as Hugh Wolff, Jean Deroyer, Stephen Drury, and Léo Margue, and featured in festivals including ManiFeste and Voix Nouvelles. His work with electronics has been performed in venues including Ircam, UC Berkeley’s CNMAT, and Stanford University’s CCRMA. Matthew served as Composer-in-Residence for the newly-formed Alinéa Ensemble during their inaugural season (2019-2020).

He has had masterclasses and lessons from composers including Kaija Saariaho, Tristan Murail, Philippe Leroux, Francesco Filidei, Philippe Manoury, Francesca Verunelli, Toshio Hosokawa, and Du Yun. From 2018-2020, Matthew co-curated NEC’s contemporary music series “Tuesday Night New Music”, where he developed monthly programs of intimate concert evenings highlighting premieres by NEC’s composers. From 2015-2016, he interned with the New York Philharmonic, working within the Young People’s Concerts, Very Young Composers program, and other educational programs. Matthew’s initial musical training focused on piano studies, jazz, and improvised music.

Matthew’s research focuses on intersections of phenomenology and music theory, creating a space for work-specific methods in contemporary music analysis. Current research investigates musico-grammatical paradigms in the music of Cecil Taylor.

Matthew Monaco

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