Discipline: Music Composition

Matthias Kriesberg

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1984, 1987

Matthias Kriesberg is a composer who has received numerous commissions from the American Composers Orchestra, Modern Music, Australian Music Centre, and more. He has also written articles about music and music composition that appeared in The New York Times.

Studios

Veltin

Matthias Kriesberg worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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