Matthew Suttor New Zealand-born composer Matthew Suttor is Professor and Director of the Laurie Beechman Center for Theatrical Sound Design and Music at Yale School of Drama. Often combining acoustic forces with music technology his operas have been produced at the Bard SummerScape Festival, Mozart Prague Festival, Guggenheim Works and Process series, BAM Next Wave Festival, and the International Festival of the Arts in New Zealand. Concert works, dance works, installations, and television scores have been commissioned by the Beinecke Library, Eastman School of Music, Folkwang Tanzstudio, Essen, Television New Zealand, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and Yale Repertory Theatre. A Fulbright Scholar, Suttor received a doctorate in composition from Columbia University.
