Strider Duo
Joanna Mattrey, viola
Steven Long, piano, keyboard
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, English horn
Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
7:30 pm
Recital Hall
JANUARY 28, 2025, 7:30 PM
Real-time duo and quartet compositions
Joanna Mattrey (b. 1986), viola Steven Long (b. 1985), piano, keyboard Kyle Bruckmann (b. 1971), oboe, English horn, electronics Kathryn Schulmeister (b. 1989), double bass
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Strider Duo is the longtime collaboration of Joanna Mattrey and Steven Long. The duo uses found objects, synths, organs, bowed strings, and field recordings to create ambient miniatures. “Despite the brevity of the pieces, each one imports a sense of space that could easily transform a listener’s experience of their own environment.” (Bill Meyer, The Chicago Reader).
Joanna Mattrey is a violist and composer working in free improvisation, new music, and classical music. She uses extended techniques, modern compositional approaches, and electronic alterations to challenge the conventions of the viola. Joanna creates an embodied performance practice centered on ceremony and ritual. Her recent solo works include Soulcaster (Notice Recordings), Dirge (Dear Life Recs 2021), and Veiled (Relative Pitch Records, 2020). Mattrey has had residencies with Roulette, Watermill, ISSUE Project Room, Banff, 14th Street Y, Wild Project, and MoMa PS1's ALLGOLD. Mattrey has performed with icons Tyshawn Sorey, Henry Threadgill, Miya Masaoka, Marc Ribot, H Sinno, John Zorn, Billy Martin, Elliott Sharp, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, and Irish National Opera. Recent press and album reviews by The Wire, The Chicago Reader, Bandcamp Daily, Noise Not Music, and more. “Joanna Mattrey is becoming a force of nature.” (Foxydigitals). www.joannamattrey.com.
Steve Long is an New York City-based artist and curator working with sound, language, and space. For him, creative work, as a composer or curator, is an act of facilitation. To this end, he constructs situations that allow collaborators to push out into corners and luxuriate in both physical and metaphysical space. His work brings attention to the frayed edges of collective
action. Recordings of his solo and collaborative work have been released on Astral Spirits, Biophilia Records, Relative Pitch Records, Endectomorph Music, and Tripticks Tapes, among others. As an educator, Long has delivered lectures that trace the lineages of queerness through American Experimentalism. He currently teaches at The New School in New York. www.steve-long.com.
Oboist and electronic musician Kyle Bruckmann is assistant professor of practice and program director of Varied Ensembles at University of the Pacific. He freelances throughout the greater Bay Area’s Euro-classical music scene while actively producing experimental solo and collaborative work within an international community of improvisers and sound artists. His current ensemble affiliations include Splinter Reeds, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Quinteto Latino, Eco Ensemble, sfSound, and the Stockton Symphony.
Bruckmann tramples genre boundaries in widely ranging work as a composer/performer, educator and New Music specialist. His creative output—extending from conservatory-trained foundations into gray areas encompassing free jazz, post-punk rock, and the noise underground—can be heard on more than 100 recordings. Three decades of chameleonic gigging have found him performing in settings including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Venice Biennale, 924 Gilman, Berghain, a 12-foot diameter bomb shelter, and dangling 30 feet in the air by a harness from a crane.
Bassist Kathryn Schulmeister joined the faculty of University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music in fall 2023. Praised for her “expressive and captivating performance” (GRAMMY.com), she enjoys a creative music practice as a versatile performer, educator and researcher. Recent honors include a 2020 Grammy Award nomination as a collaborating artist featured on Susan Narucki’s “The Edge of Silence,” a contemporary classical album of chamber works by György Kurtág on AVIE Records (2019).
Schulmeister has appeared as a soloist with leading international contemporary ensembles including Klangforum Wien, the ELISION Ensemble and Ensemble Vertixe Sonora. She has given solo performances at venues and festivals around the world including the Melbourne Recital Centre,
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart, San Diego Museum of Making Music, soundSCAPE Festival, Vértice Festival and the Clive Davis Theater at the Grammy Museum. She is a member of the ELISION Ensemble, Fonema Consort (Chicago/NYC), and Echoi Ensemble (LA).
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