Finn Mattingly

Composer

About

Finn Mattingly is a composer from the north shore of Boston, Massachusetts. Currently, he is a Humphrey Searle Scholar at the Royal College of Music in London under Kenneth Hesketh, Simon Holt, and Jonathan Cole, and has additionally studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Bent Sørensen and Marcela Lucatelli. Beyond creating an upcoming fixed media installation at Kew Gardens, he recently wrote for àktapha Ensemble in Athens, Greece and for members of Barcelona Modern in Spain, having been selected as part of the ensemble's 2024 International Composition Course. His solo violin piece for Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Seaside Contemplation, received recognition in Tribeca New Music’s 2021 Young Composer Competition, and he is a Finalist Honorable Mention recipient in the American Prize for Composition. He has presented music in masterclasses with Gabriella Smith, Ryan Latimer, Martin Bresnick, Pamela Z, Nico Muhly, and Kati Agócs, and has attended a Peter Eötvös Foundation workshop, the Cascade Composers Workshop, Brevard Music Center, Atlantic Music Festival, Curtis’s Young Artists Summer Program, and Boston Conservatory’s High School Composition Intensive. While still in high school, he studied with Rodney Lister at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and Kyle Blaha at the New York Youth Symphony. Outside of artistic work, he is pursuing research in the creative cognitive processes behind the composer’s warm up, and is a passionate educator; he taught private composition to students from underprivileged backgrounds with Through the Staff and served on the inaugural ABRSM’s Young Adults Advisory Board in the 2023-2024 academic year.