Matthias Buchholz (violist)

Matthias Buchholz (born December 14, 1957 in Hamburg ) is a German violist and since 1990 professor for viola in Cologne and Geneva .

Career

Matthias Buchholz began studying music in Hamburg, further studies took him to Cincinnati, Detmold and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He was a prizewinner of the German Music Competition Bonn 1978, the Coleman Competition in Los Angeles 1981, and the International Music Competition Budapest 1984.

Since 1976 Buchholz has given concerts as a soloist and in ensembles in Europe, the USA and Canada, South America and the Far East. Since 1991 he has been a member of the Linos Ensemble, with which he has recorded a number of CDs.

From 2003 to 2008 he was also a founding member of the Heine Quartet, which premiered Aribert Reimann's “Adagio for String Quartet”, dedicated to Robert Schumann , at the 2006 Düsseldorf Schumann Festival. Further world premieres were “Hölderlinlesen II” for viola, speaking voice and live electronics by Hans Zender and “Come and go” by Heinz Holliger .

Matthias Buchholz was the first solo violist in the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR from 1986 until he was appointed professor for viola at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in 1990 . Since then he has also given master classes in Asia, the USA and Europe. From 2013 to 2018 he also taught at the HEM Geneva as the successor to Nobuko Imai .

Buchholz gives concerts in recitals and at chamber music concerts and festivals such as u. a. in Avignon, Cologne, Berlin, Marlboro, Hitzacker, Lyon, Schleswig-Holstein, Ottawa, Salzburg, Mondsee, Russia etc. a. with the Auryn Quartet and the American String Quartet.

Web links

• Professors at the Cologne University of Music
• Heine Quartet
• Mondsee Music Days
• Chamber music festival Salzburg
• Chamber music for Cologne