{"id":75502,"date":"2026-07-01T16:56:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=75502"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:15:38","slug":"the-wild-heart-dylan-mattingly-makes-debut-on-nonesuch-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2026\/07\/the-wild-heart-dylan-mattingly-makes-debut-on-nonesuch-records.html","title":{"rendered":"‘The Wild Heart’<\/em><\/font>
Dylan Mattingly Makes Debut on Nonesuch Records<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you’re a young composer, perhaps your most formidable problem is not just learning your craft but getting your compositions played. To solve that problem two Bard College undergrads \u2014 Dylan Mattingly, a neophyte symphonist, and David Bloom, studying to be a conductor \u2014 put together a band of fellow Bard musicians. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Nonesuch track excerpts of ‘The Wild Heart’ <\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sixteen years later \u2014 in a miracle of devotion, hard work, and talent \u2014 that band still thrives. <\/strong><\/strong> Dubbed Contemporaneous<\/a> and now based in New York City, it has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Park Avenue Armory, and Walt Disney Concert Hall, among many other venues, and has performed hundreds of works by contemporary composers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mattingly’s own compositions have since been commissioned and presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Ojai Music Festival. His music has been been conducted not only by Bloom but by John Adams and Marin Alsop<\/strong>; performed by pianists Sarah Cahill and Kathleen Supov\u00e9; sung by Dawn Upshaw and Iarla \u00d3 Lion\u00e1ird. Now Mattingly makes his debut on Nonesuch Records with the release of “The Wild Heart.”<\/strong> Have a listen to some excerpts.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When you’re a young composer, perhaps your most formidable problem is not just learning your craft but getting your music played. To solve that problem two Bard College undergrads \u2014 Dylan Mattingly and David Blum \u2014 put together a band of fellow Bard musicians. Sixteen years later that band still thrives, performing the works of many contemporary composers. And Mattingly’s own music has since been commissioned and presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Ojai Music Festival, among others. Last week he made his debut on Nonesuch Records with the release of ‘The Wild Heart.’<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,22,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-music","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/THE-WILD-HEART-Dylan-Mattingly-Nonesuchbdrenh-750.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-jDM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75502"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75650,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75502\/revisions\/75650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}