Matthias Krüger is a composer for contemporary music based between Paris and Hamburg. Born in 1987 in Ulm (Germany), he grew up in Brussels and Trier, and studied music composition at Cologne’s Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, at Columbia University in New York City, and IRCAM in Paris, as well as French language at Cologne University and Sorbonne University (Paris). Currently he is a doctoral candidate at Hamburg's University of Music and Theatre, researching on hybrid composition between music, dance, theatre and video. He has received numerous awards and scholarships, including from DAAD, the German National Academic Foundation, Berlin’s Mendelssohn competition in 2013, Cologne's B.A. Zimmermann award in 2015, the Chevillion-Bonnaud, composition award (Orléans 2016) as well as a nomination for the 2018 Gaudeamus Award (Utrecht). Residencies and research trips took and take him, among others, to Istanbul, Paris, New Zealand, Montreal where he was composer-in-residence at the Goethe-Institut and Le Vivier as well as a Graduate Researcher at McGill University Montreal/CIRMMT, and Venice, where he was Artist-in-Residence at the German Center for Venetian Studies in Venice, Italy.