Matthias Wollong

Matthias Wollong (born December 31, 1968 in Berlin ) is a German violinist.

Career

Matthias Wollong (2016)

Matthias Wollong began playing the violin at the age of five. After training in Werner Scholz's master class , he went to Switzerland from 1987 to 1989 to study with the violinist and teacher Tibor Varga . During this time he performed as a soloist in Germany, France and Switzerland. With the victory of the violin competition named after his teacher, he finished his studies there. Other prizes, such as the main prize at the "Joseph Joachim" violin competition in Austria, followed.

As a soloist he has worked with conductors Ádám Fischer , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Marek Janowski , Vladimir Jurowski and Sir Colin Davis and the ORF Symphony Orchestra , the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Staatskapelle Dresden , the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Weimar together .

At a young age he was a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra . Matthias Wollong has been the first concertmaster of the Saxon State Orchestra since 1999, after having held the same position with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 1999. During the summer months he played as first concertmaster in the orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival .

Wollong devotes himself intensively to chamber music. He appeared in various formations at the Salzburg Easter Festival and at the International Shostakovich Days Gohrisch. As a chamber musician, he has published radio and CD recordings, such as the complete works for violin by Othmar Schoeck and Wilhelm Furtwängler , the piano trios by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven (Genuin). In 2008 he received an " Echo Klassik " for the recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's chamber music .

Since 2003 he has been working closely as a conductor and soloist with the European Union Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has toured Europe, the Far East and North and South America.

As a conductor he led the German Chamber Orchestra, the Thuringia Philharmonic and made guest appearances with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra .

Wollong holds a professorship at the Liszt School of Music Weimar , where he also lives. He plays an Andrea Guarneri violin from 1676.

Recordings

Works	Contributors	Label
Alfredo Casella Violin Concerto in A minor op.48	Michael Sanderling Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin	Capriccio
Alfredo Casella Triple Concerto op 56	Danjulo Ishizaka, violoncello Frank Immo Zichner, piano	Capriccio
Ernest Bloch Concerto for violin and orchestra	Vladimir Jurowski Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin	Capriccio
Salomon Jadassohn Piano trio op.85, piano quartet op.77, piano quintet op.126	Birgitta Wollenweber, piano Matthias Wollong, Jörg Fassmann, violins Hartmut Rohde, viola Michael Sanderling, violoncello	Real sound
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Suite op.23	Trio Parnassus	Music production Dabringhaus and Grimm
Florent Schmitt Piano quintet op.51 À tour d `anches op.97	Soloist ensemble Berlin	Naxos
Gaetano Donizetti La Favorite, arranged for two violins by Richard Wagner	Matthias Wollong, Jörg Fassmann, violins Daniel Morgenroth, speaker	Oehms Classics
Wilhelm Furtwängler Violin Sonatas No. 1 + 2	Birgitta Wollenweber, piano	cpo
Othmar Schoeck Sonatas for violin and piano	Patricia Pagny, piano	Music scene Switzerland, MGB
Johannes Brahms Piano Trios No. 1–3	Trio Ex Aequo	Genuine
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trios op 70 No. 1 ("Ghost Trio"), op. 121a, op. 1 No. 2	Trio Ex Aequo	Genuine

Individual evidence

1. ^ Advertisement - Staatskapelle Dresden. Retrieved December 26, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Norbayerischer Courier Germany: Wollong: With the presence of a soloist - North Kurier. Retrieved December 26, 2018 . 
3. ^ Concertmaster Matthias Wollong on Gohrisch, Shostakowitsch and the Staatskapelle Dresden. Retrieved December 26, 2018 . 
4. ↑ University of Music LISZT - employees - teachers. Retrieved December 26, 2018 .