Maryam Rezaei
Chrissoula Manolakaki
Panos Chreppas
Stamatis Tsagias
Asimeni TountaDanae Papamattheou-Matschke
The young and gifted Danae Papamattheou-Matschke fell in love with the violin from the age of 3! She was born in a musical family and her father plays the piano and has hosted many house concerts. Being a very energetic child she was all over the place and didn’t have much interest for the concerts taking place in their house… until ofcourse they had a violin-piano recital… and that was the first time her mother saw her sitting still and amazed…at the age of 3!!! So touching! And from then on she kept saying she wanted to play the violin, and so her parents bought her first violin together with her first violin lesson on her 5th birthday!
Danae preformed in music festivals already by the age of 11! At the age of 13 she enters, as a pupil of exceptional talent, the Special Music School Belvedere in Weimar/Germany, enrolled in the class of Professor Jost Witter. She follows this with studies under Professor Igor Ozim at the University Mozarteum of Salzburg/Austria, where in 2011 she receives Degree of “Bachelor of Arts” and in 2013 the Degree of “Master of Arts”, with distinction. She is currently finishing her studies in the class of Professor Tanja Becker-Bender in the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre/Germany, with a scholarship from the “Alexandros S.Onassis Foundation”.
Danae Papamattheou-Matschke has received a great No. of awards already in such a young age and has performed in many international music festivals and concerts in Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, China and Cyprus. As a soloist, she has played with numerous symphonic orchestras such as the National Orchestra of Athens and of Thessaloniki, the Thüringen Philharmonic, the Westsächsisches Symphonic Orchestra, the Vogtland Philharmonic, the Erzgebirgische Philharmonic, the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra of Leipzig, the Kamerata Orchestra of the Friends of Music and others.
Danae besides her talent is deeply dedicated to her work. She says that many people have talent but that’s not enough, especially in the world of music and arts! She has worked and studied non-stop from such a young age where other children in her age had fun and lived their “normal” childhood. Ofcourse for Danae that was fun... as she chose to dedicate herself to music and her violin working very hard for it! Danae, at the of 13, left for Germany on her own staying in a boarding house… not many children can survive this and achieve their goals! She says you have to believe in yourself and stop at nothing…
I asked her what her violin meant to her…
The violin is my voice… is my soul expressing… others sing or speak, I speak through my violin! When I can touch the souls of others with my music then I know I am on the right path...
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