Joanna Mattrey is a NYC/Dublin based violist, composer, improviser, and multimedia artist, whose works blend installation, video, sound, and movement, and are often site-specific. Her compositions use multimedia elements to create visual and sonic environments that convey the themes of transformation, memory, politics, social connection, loss, and spiritual journeys. Working in free improvisation, new music, and classical music, she uses extended techniques, modern compositional approaches, and electronic alterations to challenge conventions in sound. Mattrey has performed with icons Tyshawn Sorey, Henry Threadgill, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Billy Martin, Elliott Sharp, Miya Masaoka, and The Crash Ensemble, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Irish National Opera.

 

Festivals  include Newport Jazz Festival, NYC Jazz Fest, Jazzwerkstatt, ArtActs, Tomeka Reid's Chicago Jazz String Summit, Dis(obedience) Fest, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, November Music, Kilkenny Festival, KollektivRabazzz, Visual Sound Outdoor Festival. Dara Festival.

 

Recent solo works include, 'Soulcaster' (Notice Recordings 2023), ‘Dirge’ (Dear Life Recs 2021), 'Veiled’ (Relative Pitch Records, 2020).

 

Residencies include Roulette, ISSUE Project Room, Watermill, Banff's Creative Gesture, 14th Street Y, Wild Project, and MoMa PS1's ALLGOLD.

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Mattrey is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Mattrey is a certified Alexander Technique Teacher, and certified Hatha and Kundalini Yoga Teacher.