Mátti Kovler

Mátti was a fellow at the Tanglewood, Aspen and Accademia Chigiana Festivals, a winner of two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards, and of the Theodore Presser Award. Mátti Kovler is a recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships and holds a doctorate in Composition from the New England Conservatory. In September 2013 Mátti was recognized by the Boston Foundation as one of the six winners of the 2013 Brother Thomas Fellowships, “no strings attached” $15,000 bi-annual awards designed to support 6 talented artists making outstanding contributions to their community through excellence in their craft.

Mátti Kovler is the artistic director of Floating Tower, based in Brooklyn, NYC. With a modular make-up of 27 multi-national actors/musicians, Floating Tower operates as a creator, producer and educator developing innovative content and new avenues for cross-cultural engagement. Since its founding in 2011, Floating Tower has created over thirty productions in the United States, Israel, China and Russia. Spanning from traditional to experimental, Floating Tower events have been staged at venues ranging from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to the Collector Gallery, a 1000 sq. ft. underground art-cave in Moscow.

Born in Moscow, Kovler is the paternal grandson of Russian operatic tenor and Yiddish singer Leonid Kovler and Russian pianist Roza Eidus. Kovler immigrated to Israel in 1990 with his family. He graduated from the Israel Arts & Science Academy, and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and moved to the United States in 2006 to continue his studies. He holds a doctorate from the New England Conservatory in Boston. Kovler taught at the New England Conservatory, and the Northeastern University. In 2014-2015 he was the Elie Wiesel Center composer in residence at the Boston University. As part of this residency, Kovler created Floating Tower Series. He is a member of the advanced BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre workshop, the foremost training ground for new musical theatre. Mátti is married and lives in Brooklyn, NY and North Adams, MA.

Mátti Kovler (Hebrew: מתי קובלר, born Dmitri Konstantinovich Kovler, Russian: Дми́трий Константи́нович Ковлер; 14 September 1980, Moscow) is a Russian-born Israeli-American composer and creator of new music theatre. Called by Steve Smith of The New York Times “a potentially estimable operatic composer in the making,” his music has been compared to Leonard Bernstein's.