Matthias Muche studied jazz trombone and composition at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, the Rotterdams Conservatorium, and the Cologne Hochschule für Musik und Tanz. He also completed postgraduate studies in audiovisual media at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Cologne where he works as a freelance instrumentalist in jazz and contemporary music, as an instrumental teacher, composer and improviser, and as a curator and artistic director of festivals and international artist encounters. Among other areas, the focus of his work includes interdisciplinary projects in music, theatre, dance and video art, in which intermedia compositional concepts are explored, and with which he has performed in over 50 countries under the label Zeitkunst e.V., as well as teaching master classes and workshops.His compositions and improvisations bring together these very different influences and tell a wide variety of musical stories.In his new solo project, he uses a wide variety of playing setups: feeds of speech and soundscapes into and on the trombone, spatial expansion using external bells, interactive computer graphics as synaesthetic perception, or simply the pure, naked trombone. In 2021, Muche received the Jazz Prize of the WDR in the category Improvisation.