CONCERT & RECITAL SERIES Violin
& Piano Recital
Danae Papamatthäou-Matschke / violin
Uwe Matschke / piano
Friday, 8
October 2010
The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Street, Nicosia
(Limited Seating, Pre-booking essential)
The Pharos
Arts Foundation presents a violin and piano recital with two exceptional
musicians: pianist Uwe Matschke and his prodigy daughter Danae
Papamatthäou-Matschke. The recital will include a diverse programme of
sonatas by Bach, Beethoven, Franck, as well as the world-premiere of a work
by the Greek composer Demetris Terzakis.
Danae Papamatthäou-Matschke / violin
...Unhindered, with precision and technical maturity, she achieved her
purpose with impatient and fast chords, darting of the bow and passing to
trills. In this way, she gave to this romantic piece an inciting and
extroverted character. If it is true that violin playing resembles a song,
then the performance of this up and coming violinist belongs to the class of
grand opera. '' Newspaper Frankenpost (14.6.2005)
Danae Papamatthäou-Matschke was born in Athens in 1988 and received her
first violin lessons at the age of 5. In 2002, she was accepted as a pupil
in Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere, the school of music in Weimar (Germany)
in the violin class of Jost Witter, professor of the Higher School of Music
Franz Liszt. She has actively participated in a number of master-classes by
renowned musicians, including Prof. Igor Ozim (as part of the International
Summer Courses of Weimar in 2002, 2003, 2004), Prof. Ana Chumachenko and
Prof. Zakhar Bron at the Verbier Academy.
Danae gave her first recitals at the age of 11, at the festivals of Symi and
Hydra, and subsequently in various German cities. As a soloist, she has
appeared with the German symphonic orchestras Westsächsisches
Symphonieorchester and Vogtland Philharmonie, and in Greece, with the State
Orchestra of Thessaloniki and the Symphony Orchestra of Volos. She gave
recitals as part of the German music festival Festspiele Mecklenburg -
Vorpommen and in Greece at the Festivals of Syros and Chalkidiki, as well as
the Athens and Thessaloniki Megarons.
Danae Papamatthäou-Matschke was awarded the first prize for a solo violin
performance in a number of competitions, including the International Violin
Competition Andrea Postacchini (Italy / 2003), the National German
Competition 'Jugend musiziert' (2004), the First International Competition
for Young Soloists 'Ersi Saratsi' (Greece / 2004) and the Second
International Violin Competition 'Henri Marteau' (Germany / 2005). She has
also received scholarships from the Greek Society of the Friends of Music
and the German Organization Musikleben, and she is currently supported by
the Alexandros S. Onassis Foundation. As a prize-winner of the 14th
competition of the German Foundation of Musical Instruments in Hamburg,
Danae Papamatthäou-Matschke is playing on an Italian violin made by Carlo
Giuseppe Testore (Milan 1710), offer of a private collection of Heidelberg.
Uwe Matschke / piano
'Through his fingers, the motifs shone with ease and elegance, leading
together with the string quartet the work to a thrilling, joyfull and
vigorous crescendo'. B Pietsch onSchubert's Trout Quintet with Dresden
Philharmonic in 2002.
Uwe Matschke was born in Germany in 1956. He studied at the Franz Liszt
Higher School of Music in Weimar, as a student of professor Juliane Lerche.
After obtaining a state scholarship, he followed postgraduate studies at the
Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. At the same time, he attended
seminars given by professors Jacob Lateiner and Peter Solymmos at the
International Music Seminary in Weimar and successfully participated in
international piano competitions in Germany, Hungary and Italy.
Since 1987, Uwe Matschke resides in Greece, where he is Professor of Piano
and Head of the Department of Music Science and Art of the University of
Macedonia, Economic and Social Sciences in Thessaloniki.
Matschke has given numerous recitals throughout Europe, and has been praised
by the press for his skillful interpretations and the great sensitivity of
his performances. As soloist, he has appeared with a number of orchestras
including the State Orchestra of Athens, State Orchestra of Thessaloniki,
Virtuosi di Praga, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and Orchestra of Colors. He
has also participated in numerous chamber concerts, having collaborated with
internationally-acclaimed soloists such as violinists Václav Hudecek and
Vanya Milanova and cellist Kerstin Feltz. He has also appeared in
international festivals and performed at renowned concert halls such as the
Braunschweiger Festival, Erfurter Festival, Mozart - Gesellschaft Munchen,
Cemal Resit Rey Konser Salonou - Constantinopel, Dimitria
Festival-Thessaloniki, the Athens and Thessaloniki Megarons.
Uwe Matschke's recordings have been released by EMI and Virgin Records.
Programme:
Johann
Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata for solo violin in G minor BWV 1001 (1720)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata for violin and piano in D major, Op. 12 No. 1 (1797)
interval
Demetris Terzakis (b. 1938) “Sprüche im Wind” 10 miniatures for violin and piano - Dedicated to Danae
Papamatthäou-Matschke WORLD-PREMIERE
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Sonata for violin and piano in A major (1886)
Ticket Prices:
Adults: EUR22
Friends and Supporters of the Pharos Arts Foundation / Concessions: EUR17
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