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Matthias Koole

Matthias Francisco Koole is a guitarist working as a soloist and in various forms of collaboration in written music, improvisation and multidisciplinary projects.

Matthias Francisco is a member of various groups covering a wide range of musical styles and practices: Institute for Certified Nomadic Illicit Sonic Practices (ICNISP) with Marina Cyrino, the new music guitar duo Oh Mensch with Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, the experimental music trio Infinito Menos with Mário Del Nunzio and Henrique Iwao, a quartet with JD Zazie, Tony Elieh and Marina Cyrino, and many others.

Matthias Francisco is a member of the Brazilian experimental music label/production house Seminal Records with Henrique Iwao, Sanannda Acácia, J.P.-Caron and Marina Cyrino.

Matthias was awarded a Stipendienpreis at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (2010) and was resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2013-2015).

Matthias received his PhD from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, under the supervision of percussionist Fernando Rocha and ethnomusicologist Lúcia Campos.

HAs organized among other events, the improvisation series QI – Quartas de Improviso.

He lives and works in Berlin.