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- List of professors of the Hochschule für Musik, Cologne
- Nomination of Matthias Buchholz HEM Geneve
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- Linos Ensemble
- Chamber Music Festival Mondsee
- Chamber Music Festival Salzburg
- Hitzacker Festival
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Matthias Buchholz (born 14 December 1957, in Hamburg) is a German violist and professor of viola in Cologne and Geneva.
Buchholz began his musical training in Hamburg and continued his studies at the University of Cincinnati, in Detmold, and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He was a laureate of the important prizes at international viola competitions in Bonn (1978), Los Angeles (1981) and Budapest (1984). Since 1976, Buchholz has given concerts as a soloist and in a variety of ensembles such as the American String Quartet and the Auryn Quartet in Europe, North and South America, and in the Far East. Since 1991, he has been a member of the Linos-Ensemble, recording and touring throughout Europe and Southeast Asia.
From 2003 until 2008 he was a founding member of the Heine-Quartett, which performed the world premiere of the "Adagio für Streichquartett", dedicated to Robert Schumann by Aribert Reimann at the Düsseldorfer Schumannfest 2006.
Beginning in 1986, Matthias Buchholz was principal viola with the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra until in 1990 he was appointed professor of viola at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, one of the world's foremost performing arts schools and one of the largest music institutions for higher education in Europe. Subsequently he has been invited to hold masterclasses in Europe as well as in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, China and South Korea. He was a leading member of Hwaum Chamber Orchestra in Seoul. In 2013 he was nominated professeur d’alto at the HEM Geneve following Nobuko Imai.
He is a frequent guest recitals and to international concerts and festivals for chamber-music such as Avignon, Cologne, Berlin, Marlboro, Hitzacker, Lyon, Schleswig–Holstein, Ottawa, Salzburg, Mondsee and Russia.
Matthias Buchholz lives in Cologne and is the father of three children.
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The Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin in Berlin, Germany, is one of the leading universities of music in Europe. It was established in East Berlin in 1950 as the Deutsche Hochschule für Musik because the older Hochschule für Musik Berlin was in West Berlin. After the death of one of its first professors, composer Hanns Eisler, the school was renamed in his honor in 1964. After a renovation in 2005, the university is located in both Berlin's famed Gendarmenmarkt and the Neuer Marstall.
Peter Ruzicka is a German composer and conductor of classical music. He was director of the Hamburg State Opera, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hamburg and the Salzburg Festival. Ruzicka was managing director and Intendant of the Salzburg Easter Festival and is professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. The list of his compositions includes numerous orchestral and chamber music works as well as the opera "Celan", about the poet Paul Celan, which was premiered in Dresden in 2001. His opera "Hölderlin" had its premiere at the Berlin State Opera in 2008. Ruzicka's third opera "Benjamin", about the philosopher Walter Benjamin, was written in 2015/16 for the Hamburg State Opera and premiered in 2018.
Matthias Höfs is a German trumpeter.
Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer. In a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, pieces by Haas received the most votes (49), and his composition in vain (2000) topped the list.
Ludwig Güttler is an internationally known German virtuoso on the Baroque trumpet, the piccolo trumpet and the corno da caccia. As a conductor, he founded several ensembles including the chamber orchestra Virtuosi Saxoniae. His name is sometimes written in English as Ludwig Guttler.
Jinsang Lee is a South Korean classical pianist and a professor at Korea National University of Arts.
Richard Elliot Haynes is an Australian clarinettist residing in Switzerland. He performs music spanning the 16th to 21st centuries worldwide, but predominantly music by living composers, in a multitude of contexts.
The Russian-born British/German cellist Leonid Gorokhov studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire with Anatoli Nikitin and took part in masterclasses with Daniil Shafran. Winner of Concertino Praga and Paris Chamber Music Competition, Leonid Gorokhov is the only Russian cellist to be awarded the Grand Prix and the First Prize of the Geneva Concours (1986). In 1995 the European Association for Encouragement of the Arts awarded the Cultural Achievement Prize to Leonid Gorokhov for exceptional talent and outstanding artistic accomplishment.
Christoph Poppen is a German conductor, violinist and academic teacher.
Niels Klein is a German jazz musician and composer.
Hatto Beyerle was a German-Austrian violist who played mainly as a chamber musician, conductor and academic teacher. He was a founding member of the Alban Berg Quartet, and remained with the string quartet until 1981. He was professor of viola and chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna from 1964 to 1987, and also taught at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, the City of Basel Music Academy and Fiesole School of Music, besides international master classes, influencing notable chamber music ensembles. He initiated and directed the European Chamber Music Academy in 2004.
Vincent Royer is a French violist and composer.
Konstantía Gourzí is a Greek composer and conductor. She is professor of ensemble conducting and new music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
Shirley Brill is an Israeli clarinetist living in Germany.
Wolfgang Boettcher was a German classical cellist and academic teacher. He was principal cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic, and a founding member of The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic. From 1976, he was professor at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin. From 1986 to 1992 he was artistic director of the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker chamber music festival.
Matthias Sannemüller is a German violist.
Wilhelm Stross was a German violinist and composer. He was professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln as well as first violin of the Stross Quartet.
Jan Philip Schulze is a German classical pianist.
Wolfgang Marschner was a German violinist, teacher of violin, composer and conductor. He was concertmaster of the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, and instrumental in world premieres of contemporary music. He was professor at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, the Musikhochschule Köln, the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music and, for more than three decades, at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He also taught at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse.
Martin Christoph Redel is a German composer, music theorist, percussionist and university teacher.
