As an active performer of contemporary music, trumpeter Matthew Conley performs frequently with ensembles such as Ensemble Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, ŒNM (Salzburg), and others. He is a founding member of the Berlin-based Ensemble Apparat, a brass quintet dedicated to the expansion of contemporary brass repertoire which, together with ensemble mosaik, Ensemble Adapter, and Sonar Quartet, forms the Ensemblekollektiv Berlin. Matthew appeared as soloist on Matthias Pintscher’s sonic eclipse at the 2011 Biennale für Moderne Musik in Frankfurt am Main and the 2012 Slowind Festival in Ljubljana. He was a prizewinner at the 2011 Stockhausen Courses for his performance of OBERLIPPENTANZ for piccolo trumpet, and has subsequently been invited by the Stockhausen Foundation for Music to perform the work on many occasions. In the summers of 2010, 2012, and 2013 he participated in the Lucerne Festival Academy under the artistic direction of Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös and was the 2010/11 stipendiary of the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, based in Frankfurt am Main. Matthew holds a BM degree from the University of Cincinnati College–Conservatory of Music. In 2010 he completed a Master’s degree in Solo Performance at McGill University, where he studied with Edward Carroll. Additionally, he has worked intensively with Markus Stockhausen and studied four consecutive summers at the Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale.