Matthias S. Krüger (*1980, Germany) studied composition with York Höller, Frédéric Durieux, Georg Friedrich Haas and Erik Oña, piano and conducting at Cologne, Paris, Frankfurt/M. and Basel. In 2010/11 he was committed as a guest lecturer at the universitiy of arts at Graz (Autria). Among others he got scholarships of the „Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes“ and the DAAD. He achieved numerous awards, for example of the Darmstadt Summer Courses 2002, the „Festival Ensemblia Mönchengladbach“ 2003, the „Krefelder Tage Neuer Musik“ 2013 and the „Karlsruher Kompositionswettbewerb“ 2014, and invitations to the „7. Nachwuchsforum“ of the Ensemble Modern and to the „Tremplin“ of the Ensemble Intercontemporain/ IRCAM 2006/07.
Performances for example at the Abbaye Royaumont, Konzerthaus Berlin, the Salle Cortot as well as at the IRCAM/Centre
Pompidou – „Festival Agora“ Paris, the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Darmstadt Summer Courses, the Davos Festival, the festivals „Ensemblia“ Mönchengladbach and „Romanischer Sommer“ Köln and the „Schwetzinger Festspiele“.