| About
Finn Mattingly is a Munich-based composer who derives an intricate physiological timbral world from concepts of musical absurdism, gestural abstraction, and compounded instabilities. Currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with full funding from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD / German Academic Exchange Service), he has written for ensembles including Barcelona Modern (Barcelona, ES), Dissolution Ensemble (Luzern, CH), àktapha (Athens, GR), the Aizuri Quartet (NYC, US), the Fidelio Trio (London, UK), and most recently designed a fixed media installation for the "Sounds of Blossom" Festival at Kew Gardens (London, UK). Finn recently graduated from the Royal College of Music with First Class Honours, where he was a Humphrey Searle Scholar with Kenneth Hesketh, Jonathan Cole, and Simon Holt, and has additionally studied with Bent Sørensen and Marcela Lucatelli at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been selected for masterclasses including Festival Mixtur, the Akademie für Zeitgenössische Musik (Hochschule Luzern), Barcelona Modern International Composition Course, the Péter Eötvös Foundation's Spotlight on Ramon Lazkano Masterclass, the Cascade Composer's Workshop (Tacoma, US), the Atlantic Music Festival (Waterville, US), and the Curtis Institute of Music's Young Artists Summer Program. Other notable mentors include Dieter Ammann, Sarah Nemtsov, Francesca Verunelli, Hèctor Parra, David Ludwig, and Martin Bresnick, and Finn is additionally a graduate of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and New York Youth Symphony.
As a writer, he regularly contributes to PRXLUDES Magazine, and additionally presented his Bachelor's Thesis, "'Composer's Block:' Navigating Musical Creative Cognitive Processes Through Compositional Warm-Up" at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research. Further work as an educator led Finn to a position on the inaugural ABRSM Young Adults Advisory Board, and he has run workshops for schoolchildren across the US, UK, and Denmark in addition to ample private lessons offered through the organization Through the Staff.
| Selected Works
October 2026 | New Work | Electric Guitar & Accordion | Vertixe Sonora | Festival Mixtur | Barcelona, ES
16 October 2026 | New Work | Ad Hoc Instrument | SMASH.Duo | Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, DE
July 2026 | 38 Entries | Cello, Film, and Contact-Mic Expression | Alina Maries-Reim | London, UK
28 April 2026 | But later, Dancing | Mark Lev, Maeve Whelan, and Kei Solvang | Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, DE
19 April 2026 | They've Built a New Machine, Peg n' Awl | Steinway Spirio | Staatstheather Augsburg, DE
9 February 2026 | Fragment im memoriam David Watkin | Composed jointly with Paul Ersfeld Mandujano | Cello and Electronics | Carlos Vidal Ballester | Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, DE
2 July 2025 | Containment | Piano & Percussion | İlayda Deniz Oğuz and Ng Hoi Yin | Royal College of Music, London, UK
15 March - 16 April 2025 | Transpire | Fixed Media Installation | Sounds of Blossom Festival | Kew Gardens, London, UK
26 March 2025 | Thistles | String Octet | Kayu and Seion Quartets | Royal College of Music, London, UK
14 February 2025 | Containment | Piano & Percussion | Dissolution Ensemble | Hochschule Luzern, Luzern, CH
| Recent & Upcoming
| Contact
finnian.mattingly@gmail.com
+1 603 312 1916 / +44 07383 361142
Finn Mattingly
Composer
© 2026. All rights reserved. Front page photograph by Jakob Schad, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. Additional photography by Symeon Seraphim, Olivia Da Costa, and Cai Shea.