Matthias Koole

The practice of brazilian guitarist Matthias Koole navigates between improvisation and several forms of collaboration in written music and multidisciplinary projects.
Groups include ICNISP – Institute for Certified Nomadic Illicit Sonic Practices with Marina Cyrino, the guitar duo Oh Mensch with Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, the experimental music trio Infinito Menos with Henrique Iwao and Mário Del Nunzio.
Matthias Koole is a member of the Brazilian experimental music label/production house Seminal Records, through which he organizes, in Belo Horizonte, with Henrique Iwao, the improvisation series QI – Quartas de Improviso.
In the past, he was a founding member of the guitar quartet ZWERM. He played or plays, as a freelance musician, in ensembles such as Ictus, Champ d’Action, United Instruments of Lucilin, Brussels Philharmonic, BIT20 Ensemble, Opera Lab Berlin…
Recent recordings include a solo improvisation cd 34:46 released by Seminal Records and Disputa e Guerra no Terreiro de Roça de Casa de Avó with Scarassatti, Henrique Iwao and Marina Cyrino released by OEM Records.
Matthias Koole was awarded a Stipendienpreis at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (2010) and was resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2013-2015). He studied guitar in Ghent, Belgium, with Tom Pauwels and recently obtained his PhD at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil with percussionist Fernando Rocha and ethnomusicologist Lúcia Campos as advisors.
In 2021 Matthias Koole was a fellow at Labor Neunzehn, Berlin in the context Weltoffenes Berlin Program of the Senate of Berlin.