biography

American violist Matthew McDowell is a distinguished chamber musician, rising pedagogue, and violist of the internationally acclaimed Schumann Quartett. He regularly performs chamber music alongside renown artists such as Martha Argerich, Gary Hoffman, Lisa Batiashvili, Marc-André Hamelin, Enrico Pace, Mihaela Martin, Yura Lee, Miguel da Silva, Stella Chen, Paul Watkins, and members of the Berlin Philharmonic, playing chamber music in the worlds leading performance venues like Carnegie Hall, Herkulessaal Münich, Muziekgebouw, the Philharmonie de Paris, Kölner Philharmonie, Dortmund Konzerthaus, Victoria Hall, The Phillips Collection, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, the Curtis Institute of Music, and many others.

Matthew’s engagements have taken him to the most important festivals throughout Europe and North America, concertizing at places like the Verbier Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Zermatt Festival, Bad Kissingen Festival, Ludwigsburg Festspiele, YellowBarn Festival, Schiermonnikoog Festival, Prussia Cove IMS, Tippet Rise Art Center, NUME Festival, Heidelberg Frühling, Festival Pablo Casals, Moritzburg Festival, Zwischentöne Kammermusik Festival, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Festival Santa Pietra, Geneva International String Academy, Chamberlab, Oropa Festival, Centrum, Festival de Bellerive, amongst others.

Matthew completed degrees with Ettore Causa at the Yale School of Music and is an Artist-in-Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium.

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