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Matthew Shlomowitz is a composer who creates songs and instrumental music as well as theatrical works. His compositional projects include Letter Pieces, which are open score works that combine physical action with music; the Popular Contexts series that blends recognizable recordings with instrumental music; and performance-lecture works that address aesthetic issues, such as Lecture Bad Music. His pieces like Electric Dreams, an opera, won the Johann Joseph Fux Opera Composition prize and was staged in 2017. Glücklich, Freude was written for keyboardist Mark Knoop and premiered in 2019 at Donaueschinger Musiktage. Minor Characters, co-written with composer/singer Jennifer Walshe, premiered in 2023. He collaborates on projects like Six Scenes for Turntables Orchestra, which included performances by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Currently, he is working on Big Idea, a monodrama featuring mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean. Shlomowitz also writes articles on contemporary composition and teaches various courses internationally while co-directing a new music group called Ensemble and running a podcast named Soundmaking.