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opera


Stranger Love, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. To be premiered May 20, 2023, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz.

an opera in three acts
for 8 singers, 6 dancers, and chamber orchestra
text and co-conceived by Thomas Bartscherer

375'

Scored for a 28-piece orchestra and unfolding on an expansive time-scale across more than six hours, Stranger Love is a grand celebration of being alive in the unfathomable mystery of an ever-expanding universe. Both a love story and the story of love, Stranger Love broadens in scope over the course of three acts as it moves from the experience of individual lives through an archetypal image of the possibilities of human love, and at last to an ecstatic vision of the divine — a love supreme.

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Dylan Mattingly · Stranger Love, Act I: Proem
Dylan Mattingly · Stranger Love, Act I, Scene 2 (Ancestors)
Dylan Mattingly · Stranger Love, Act I, Scene 7c (Selah)
 

orchestra / large ensemble


Sky Madrigal, commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, August 2014.
for orchestra
15'

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Press: 


"beautifully crafted... a gorgeous, slow meditation" — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle

"
Mattingly builds a sort of wandering spirit song with delicate and surprising sonorities: the jangle of what sounded like a toy piano; the rapturous bellowing of cellos; soaring motion in the high strings; an overall sense of orchestral colors rising and taking flight — skillful and imaginative music of optimism and youth, looking for that next beautiful thing.” — Richard Scheinin, San Jose Mercury News
Dylan Mattingly · Sky Madrigal (excerpt)

Ecstasy, commissioned by the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, premiered August, 2016.
for SATB Choir, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, vibraphone, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass
​8'

Delphinium, commissioned by the Albany Symphony, premiered in June, 2016.
for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, vibraphone, harp, violin, viola, cello, bass
​6'

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"something like a cross between Debussy and Meredith Monk..." — Joseph Dalton, Times Union

Seasickness and Being (in love), commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, premiered May 26th, 2015 at Disney Hall, Los Angeles, CA.
for chamber orchestra
15'

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Press:

"...strong and distinct. [Mattingly has a knack for producing striking sounds..." — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

"[Seasickness and Being (in love)] begins within a decidedly helter-skelter, off-kilter world of microtonal imbalances designed to express the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. But at a point, the piece attains critical mass and blasts off into an interestellar realm where time, space, and perspective take on an entirely different meaning." — Jim Farber, San Francisco Classical Voice

Invisible Skyline, commissioned by the Berkeley Symphony, December 2012.
for orchestra
30'

Press:

"Mattingly brings all of these inventions onstage one after another, in a sort of staccato musical slideshow. Each idea is striking in its own right, and there's no denying the composer's ability as an orchestrator - he blends and interweaves the different sections and their sonorities with a deft hand." — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle

"...the atmospheric changes through different keys, textures, and dissonant chords... created a vivid psychedelic journey. It also evoked a sensation as if I were lying on a grassy hillside with my eyes closed, knowing that the glow above the skyline surrounds me, yet floating in the sky at the same time and sensing the colors shifting slowly as if I were looking through a slowly rotating kaleidoscope." — Ken Iisaka, San Francisco Classical Voice

I Was a Stranger, commissioned by John Adams and Deborah O'Grady for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, August 2012.
for orchestra
10'

Atlas of Somewhere on the Way to Howland Island, commissioned by Contemporaneous, September 2011.
for chamber orchestra
36'

Press:

"Dylan Mattingly, young as he is, has, with Atlas, earned his place in the pantheon of contemporary American composers." — Susan Scheid, Prufrock's Dilemma
innova Recordings · Dylan Mattingly: Atlas of Somewhere on the Way to Howland Island II. Islanded in a Stream of Stars
 

chamber


Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things), co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Ojai Music Festival, premiered September 19, 2021.
for two harps and two retuned pianos.
​19'

“Sunt Lacrimae Rerum” was the newest work at the festival, a piece that looked back on a year that was traumatic for all of us. But Mattingly met the moment with music that teemed with defiant, unflappable hope for the future." — The New York Times
Dylan Mattingly · Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things)

Gravity and Grace, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, premiered June 1, 2019.
for organ and two retuned pianos.
​15'

"the most poignantly entrancing passages of beautiful music in recent memory" — LA Weekly

Ecstasy #3, commissioned by the Da Capo Chamber Players, premiered June 4, 2018.
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.
​10'

La Vita Nuova (and other consequences of Spring), commissioned by Colin Davin and Emily Levin, premiered June, 2017.
for guitar and harp
​15'

"Dylan Mattingly’s La Vita Nuova is hypnotically beautiful.... This is an arresting work..." — Timothy Robson, ​ClevelandClassical.com

After The Rain, commissioned by F-Plus, premiered January 6, 2017.
for clarinet, vibraphone, and violin.
​8'

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Magnolia, commissioned by ZOFO, premiered May 10, 2016.
for piano four hands
​6'

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Achilles Dreams of Ebbets Field, commissioned by Kathleen Supové, premiered May 19, 2016 at the DiMenna Center, New York, NY.
for solo piano
105'

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Press:


"[Achilles Dreams of Ebbets Field] strikes the live listener, with almost palpable force, as a Scamander-River-like onrush of music ... like a pulsating pillar of light." — Patrick J. Vaz, The Reverberate Hills
Dylan Mattingly · Achilles Dreams of Ebbets Field: Part I (I - XIII) — Performed by Robert Fleitz
Dylan Mattingly · Achilles Dreams of Ebbets Field: Part II (XIV - XXIV) — Performed by Robert Fleitz

Y E A R, commissioned by Sarah Cahill and the Ross McKee Foundation in honor of Terry Riley's 80th birthday, January 29th, 2015.
for solo piano
15'

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The Bakkhai, commissioned by Contemporaneous and the Bard College Classics Program, December 2013.
for 3 sopranos, tenor, 2 oboes, cello, bass, re-tuned piano, 2 percussion
30'
Press:

"Mattingly, in an act of transcendent imagination, gave us not a mechanical reconstruction... but a musical summoning of that ancient world into the present, a wholly contemporary work that built an enthralling, evocative—and sometimes terrifying—musical bridge from the present to that ancient past." — Susan Scheid, Prufrock's Dilemma
Dylan Mattingly · Bakkhai — 1st Chorus
Dylan Mattingly · Bakkhai — 3rd Chorus
Dylan Mattingly · Bakkhai — 7th Chorus

Gone, Gone, Gone, commissioned by the Del Sol Quartet, December 2012.
for string quartet
15'

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Press:


"captivating" — Be'eri Moalem, ​San Francisco Classical Voice

Six Night Sunrise (Music of Barges & Metallic Stars), commissioned by the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, August 2010.
for violin and piano
9'

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innova Recordings · 03 Six Night Sunrise (Music of Barges & Metallic Stars)

A Way A Lone A Last A Loved A Long the Riverrun, commissioned by Contemporaneous, May 2010.
for bassoon, violin, cello, bass, percussion
15'

Lighthouse (Refugee Music by a Pacific Expatriate), commissioned by Contemporaneous, March 2010.
for amplified string quintet
12'
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Nobody, Not Even the Rain, Has Such Small Hands, for the Da Capo Players, December 2009.
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
9'

Dreams and False Alarms, August 2009. 
for two pianos, one tuned down a quarter-tone
20'

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