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Classicsonline Home » Artists » » Matthies, Silke-Thora
Silke-Thora Matthies was born in Gütersloh, in North Rhine-Westphalia, and studied in Detmold with Renate Kretschmar-Fischer and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York with Joseph Kalichstein, winning first prize at the New York Gina Bachauer Competition and further awards in the Budapest Liszt/Bartók Competition, the Bordeaux Jeunes Solistes, and the Cleveland (Ohio) Robert Casadesus Competition. She has recorded music ranging from Domenico Scarlatti to the contemporary and appears as a soloist and recitalist in Germany and abroad. Since 1992 she serves as a professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg in Bavaria and in October 2003 became Rector of the school, leads masterclasses and is often a jury member for international piano competitions.
Silke-Thora Matthies and Christian Köhn came together in 1986 to form a piano duo and played their first concert in public the last day of October 1988. As a duo the two players have won wide acclaim, with international prizes, and appearances in recital and as soloists. They broadcast regularly and have been responsible for a number of first performances of music by notable contemporary composers. They have held international master classes for piano duo and duet playing. In addition to their recordings of Brahms Four-Hand Piano Music for Naxos, they have also recorded works by Dvořák and Giselher Klebe.