Kalle Mattson
Instructor
Ensemble Director
Performance Instructor
Artistic Director (Song-to-Stage Camp)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School for Studies in Art and Culture
Ottawa, Ontario
kallewainio@cunet.carleton.ca
Mobile:
(161) 372-5493 ext. 8
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Bio/Research
Mattson is a Juno and Polaris Music Prize nominated singer/songwriter based in Canada. Since 2009 he has released four full-length albums and two EPs to critical and commercial acclaim. His first music video for ‘Thick As Thieves’ gained over 1,000,000 views and was covered by Time Magazine, NPR ...
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Bio/Research
Mattson is a Juno and Polaris Music Prize nominated singer/songwriter based in Canada. Since 2009 he has released four full-length albums and two EPs to critical and commercial acclaim. His first music video for ‘Thick As Thieves’ gained over 1,000,000 views and was covered by Time Magazine, NPR and The Huffington Post. It was followed in 2014 by Mattson’s third full-length studio album, the Polaris Music Prize-nominated ‘Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold’, which was inspired by his hometown on the Canadian/U.S. border and the death of his mother five years prior. It received glowing reviews from Pitchfork, Pop Matters, Rolling Stone, and Exclaim called it – “simply, a benchmark in fearless songwriting.” It was promoted by multiple tours across Canada, the US and Europe.
August 2015 saw the release of a new EP, ‘Avalanche’, which Mattson described as a mini-LP concerning the twenty-something miasma of “anxiety, nostalgia, the past, the future.” The music video for ‘Avalanche’ received widespread media attention and was nominated for a 2016 Juno Award, a 2016 Much Music Video Award and won the 2016 Prism Prize. On 2018’s ‘Youth.’, Mattson set out to make a coming-of-age album about the in-between days of post-adolescence and pre-adulthood. It was released to rave reviews with Dominionated saying – “file it under instant classic.”
His newest project ‘summersets’, a duo with longtime collaborator Andrew Sowka, debuted in 2020 with a collection of narrative driven songs set in small town Northern Ontario centred around two characters who meet as summer is coming to end. Their debut full-length, ‘small town story’ was released in 2023.
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August 2015 saw the release of a new EP, ‘Avalanche’, which Mattson described as a mini-LP concerning the twenty-something miasma of “anxiety, nostalgia, the past, the future.” The music video for ‘Avalanche’ received widespread media attention and was nominated for a 2016 Juno Award, a 2016 Much Music Video Award and won the 2016 Prism Prize. On 2018’s ‘Youth.’, Mattson set out to make a coming-of-age album about the in-between days of post-adolescence and pre-adulthood. It was released to rave reviews with Dominionated saying – “file it under instant classic.”
His newest project ‘summersets’, a duo with longtime collaborator Andrew Sowka, debuted in 2020 with a collection of narrative driven songs set in small town Northern Ontario centred around two characters who meet as summer is coming to end. Their debut full-length, ‘small town story’ was released in 2023.
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