Mats Scheidegger

Mats Scheidegger (b. 1963, Baden, Switzerland) has focused primarily on the interpretation of contemporary guitar music. He has a repertoire which brings together the most important works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and allows him the privilege of pursuing an intense concert career performing as soloist at such festivals as the Lincoln Center Festival New York, Festival D’Automne Paris, ENO London, Lucerne Festival, Wien Modern, Festspiele Berlin and the RuhrTriennale.

He maintains a lasting collaboration with composers such as Franck Bedrossian, Brian Ferneyhough, Sam Hayden and Helmut Lachenmann. Scheidegger has performed many world premieres and first  performances by Luciano Berio, Brian Ferneyhough, Sam Hayden, Hans Ulrich Lehmann and Nadir Vassena, among others, as well as numerous CD recordings (NMC, Harmonia Mundi, Grammont) and radio recordings. In recent times he has increasingly devoted himself to the electric guitar and live electronics in numerous concerts including with ensemble Soyuz21. He teaches guitar and chamber music at the Lucerne School of Music. He lives as a freelance musician in Zürich.

[photo by Vladimira Scheidegger]