Matthias Ziegler

He is committed both to the traditional literature for flute as well as to contemporary music and concepts that cross the boundaries between classical music and jazz.
Accordingly, his performances take place in a vast range of contexts: he plays principal flute with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, has toured with percussionist Pierre Favre and performed with pianist George Gruntz as well as American contrabassist Mark Dresser. He is also a member of the "Collegium Novum Zurich", where he has worked with Mauricio Kagel, Heinz Holliger and George Crumb.
Concert tours have brought him to the US, Japan, Australia, South America and Israel. Many CD recordings document his inclusive musical interests.
Matthias Ziegler currently teaches at the Musikhochschule Winterthur Zurich.
In search of new sounds, he has enormously broadened the expressive potential of the traditional flute and the electroacoustically amplified contrabass flute.
Amplifying the flute allows him to increase the volume of micro-sound structures to an audible level. Inspired by these new sound dimensions, composers such as Michael Jarrell (Switzerland), Benjamin Yusupov (Tajikistan), Matthias Rüegg (Vienna Art Orchestra) and American Mark Dresser have written flute concertos for him.
Matthias Ziegler performs on a Louis Lot flute (1880), a quartertone flute with Brannen / Kingma system, alto and bass flutes by Eva Kingma (Netherlands), and his own invention, the "Matusiflute", a uniquely designed instrument with a vibrating membrane. His contrabass flute was built by Kotato Fukushima (Japan).

Matthias Ziegler's concert and workshop is sponsored by Eva Kingma Flutes.