Matthias Ziegler

MAKING AND PLAYING LOW FLUTES WITH EVA KINGMA
Saturday 16th August 11:45

SONIC VISIONS
Saturday 16th August 15:00

Matthias Ziegler, flutist and Professor at the Zurich University of the Arts, is one of the world’s most versatile and innovative flutists. He is committed both to the traditional literature for flute as well as to contemporary music.

Concert tours have brought him to the US, Japan, Australia, South America and Israel. Many recordings on CD document his inclusive musical interests. Matthias Ziegler was co-founder of the ”Collegium Novum Zurich“, where he has worked with Mauricio Kagel, Heinz Holliger Luciano Berio and George Crumb.

Searching for new sounds he enormously broadened the expressive potential of the traditional flute and the electroacoustically amplified contrabass flute. Amplifying the flute allows him to increase the volume of the microsound structures of the flute to an audible level. Inspired by these instruments’ new dimensions of sounds, composers such as Michael Jarrell, Daniel Schnyder and George Gruntz from Switzerland, Benjamin Yusupov from Tadjikistan and the American Mark Dresser wrote flute concertos for him.

Since 2013 Matthias Ziegler has been leading a research project for developing a telematic performance format at Zurich University of Arts with partners from San Diego, Stanford University, Baptiste University Hong Kong, and others.

Matthias plays on Eva Kingma low flutes.

Matthias’s appearance at the Just Flutes Festival 2025 is generously supported by Eva Kingma Flutes.

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