Matthias Buchholz
Matthias Buchholz (born 14 December 1957 in Hamburg) is a German violist and professor of viola in Cologne and Geneva.
Biography
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 important prizes at international viola competitions in Bonn 1978, Los Angeles 1981 and Budapest 1984. Since 1976 Buchholz gives concerts as a soloist and in a variety of ensembles such as American String quartet and the Auryn Quartet in Europe, in USA and Canada, South America und in the Far East. And since 1991, he is a member of the Linos-Ensemble, recording and touring throughout Europe and Southeast Asia.
From 2003 until 2008 he was founding-member of Heine-Quartett, which performed the world premiere of the „Adagio für Streichquartett“, dedicated to Robert Schumann by Aribert Reimann at the “Düsseldorfer Schumannfest 2006”.
Since 1986, Matthias Buchholz was principal viola with the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra until in 1990 he was appointed professor for 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. In 2013 he was nominated professeur d’alto at the HEM Geneve following Nobuko Imai.
He is a frequent guest with 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.
Weblinks
• List of professors of the Hochschule für Musik, Cologne
• Nomination of Matthias Buchholz HEM Geneve
• Chamber Music Festival Mondsee
• Chamber Music Festival Salzburg