Matthew nolan

CREATIVE PLACEMAKERS composer - language and identity film (working title)

Matthew Nolan is a Dublin based musician, composer, academic and curator. He has produced new work in collaboration with some of the finest musicians around, both Irish and international. They include Adrian Crowley, Sean Mac Erlaine, Lisa Hannigan, Ernst Reijseger, Rachel Grimes, Jeff Ballard, Iarla O’Lionaird, Chris Brokaw, Erik Friedlander, Stephen Shannon, Kevin Murphy, Jan Bang, Eivind Aarset, Barry Adamson and many, many more.

He has worked on commissions from a range of prestigious performing arts institutions, including National Gallery of Ireland, BAM and Film at Lincoln Centre in New York, The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Kilkenny Arts Festival, Bram Stoker Festival, and the St Patrick’s Festival. Recent projects were presented at MoLI in Dublin as part of their Ulysses centenary project and at the New York Film Festival in 2022. 2025 will see the release of Pomes Penyeach by Universal Music, produced in collaboration with Adrian Crowley and based on James Joyce’s short book of poetry. This October will see the world premiere of his score for Masaki Kobayashi'es KWAIDAN at the World Expo 2025 in Osaka.