Matthias Kadar


Matthias Kadar is a Dutch composer and singer.

Biography

Kadar was born in Paris to Hungarian-German parents in 1977. After a short period of time studying economics, he decided to focus on music and composition. He studied with Christian Lauba in Bordeaux and later with Theo Loevendie at the conservatorium in Amsterdam. In his œuvre, there are about two hundred pieces for most instruments including a book for piano, a book of songs for baritone voice and piano based on poems in German, Hungarian and French, a small theater piece and a Concerto for violin and orchestra.

Career

Most of his works have had public performances at different festivals all over the world, such as the Mahler festival in Budapest, Ireland, Japan, USA, Salzburger Festspiele.
He has written works for the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer, Stichting het 20ste eeuwse lied, the Leo Smit Ensemble, the Oh-Ton Ensemble, the Nieuw Ensemble, Het Trio, the Hexagon Ensemble, the Ricciotti Ensemble, the National youth choir of the Netherlands, the Nederlands Kamerkoor, and for Harry Sparnaay, Annelie de Man, Arno Bornkamp, Masumi Nagasawa, Reinild Mees, Irene Maessen, Thomas Oliemans, Roger Braun, Ralph van Raat, Klárá Würtz, József Lendvay, Iván Fischer, and Isidor Lateiner.
As a singer and chansonnier, he, in addition to his work as a soloist, performs together with the Budapest Festival Orchestra in an opera of Iván Fischer or with different groupes.
At the National Remembrance Ceremony on May 4, 2009, in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam in the presence of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Prince Willem Alexander, Princess Máxima, and government officials and members of parliament, two compositions of his for women quire and tenor solo were performed: Is dit een mens written by Primo Levi and translated by Jan van der Haar, and Navertellen written by Wim de Bie. These compositions were commissioned by the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei of the Netherlands.
In 2012 Kadar, along with the Dutch Chamber Choir, presented a number of concerts he had composed and arranged and was invited to perform as a soloist and presentator.
From 2012 to 2014, he performed as a soloist singer with dance groupe LeineRoebana in the production NexT.
Until 2014, he was part of the Trio de Passage together with saxophonist Hester Cnossen and puppeteer Feike Boschma.
In 2014 his composition for orchestra Lebam, commissioned by the NSO orchestra and the Dutch Performing Art Funds, was performed in the 10 great halls of The Netherlands including the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam.
In 2015, his composition Peintures for the David Kweksilber Bigband and Leo van Oostrom as a saxophone soloist was performed at a Jazz Jubilee in Arnhem and in the Bimhuis in Amsterdam.
In 2016, his new composition on Casanova was performed by himself as a soloist and the ensemble of the Ij-Salon consisting mainly of players of the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

List of works

Works for solo instruments