MATILDA HOFMAN
Stockausen's Carre at Ruhrtriennale 2016
Mark Sved at the LA Times, Sept 17 2016
The audience sat in the middle of a gigantic industrial site transformed into a spectacular arts space for the Ruhrtriennale 15 years ago. The Bochum Symphony and ChorWerk Ruhr were divided into four ensembles and situated on platforms in the room’s four corners and amplified. Each had an excellent conductor
Frankfurter Allgemeine August 20 2016
Unter den vier Dirigenten Rupert Huber, Florian Helgath, Matilda Hofman und Michael Alber meisterten die Bochumer Symphoniker und das ChorWerk Ruhr engagiert, mit aller gebotenen Präzision und Detailtreue, ihre ungewöhnliche Aufgabe als mal berserkerhaft, mal subtil arbeitende Klangskulpteure.
Festival Opera Double Bill 2014
Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Gate
Music Director Matilda Hofman led a taut, finely controlled performance, with deft stage direction by Beth Greenberg.
San Francisco Classical Voice
Music director and conductor Matilda Hofman gave the music’s tonal shifts a striking sense of purpose, both discordant and inevitable.
Nono- Prometeo, Ruhrtriennale Festival
“The musicians accomplish wonders, achieiving under Ingo Metzmacher and Matilda Hofman’s direction a breathtaking precision in Nono’s work.”
Die Zeit, September 2015
Luigi Nono's Prometeo at Luzerner Theater
Komm hörend ins Offene, Freund! (Kritik vom 12.09.2016 aus der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung von Tobias Gerber)
Der Luzerner Globe soll der kleinste Raum sein, in dem der 'Prometeo' jemals aufgeführt wurde. Tatsächlich ist das Klangbild darin noch in den leisesten Stellen sehr präsent. Umso mehr tritt das präzise und pointierte Spiel der Musiker unter der Leitung von Clemens Heil und Matilda Hofman hervor
Kurt Rhode's Death with Interruptions
San Francisco Gate 2015
For me, the most transfixing part of the evening (which began with a thematically apt excerpt from Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” Quartet) was the elaborate and eloquent solo ballet with which conductor Matilda Hofman guided the proceedings. To watch her marshal the flow of the performance — now crisp and precise, now fluid and polyrhythmic — was to believe that somehow this might all make musical sense.
sfciviccenter.blogspot.de
The instrumentalists from the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, where Rohde is "composer/violist/artistic advisor" were integral members of the piece and played the complex music under the young conductor Matilda Hofman splendidly.