Matthias Erbe
Matthias Erbe Violin
Matthias Erbe grew up in Northern Hesse and received his musical education initially in Kassel with Irmgard Hitzig and later at the conservatory in Mainz with Prof. Maria Egelhof. He completed his Artist Diploma in the class of Prof. Karl Georg Deutsch at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar. This was followed by a Master of Music program as a Rotary Foundation Fellow at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the USA, studying with Prof. Ian Swensen.
After completing his studies, Matthias returned to Germany and began working as a freelance musician in various genres and ensembles in Berlin.
As a soloist with orchestra, he has performed works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Violin Concerto in D minor), Ottorino Respighi (Violin Concerto "Concerto gregoriano"), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Violin Concertos in G major and A major), Joseph Haydn (Violin Concerto in G major, Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat major), Antonio Vivaldi (The Four Seasons), Johann Sebastian Bach (Double Concerto for Two Violins, Double Concerto for Oboe and Violin, Brandenburg Concertos No. 3, 4, and 5), Ernest Bloch ("Baal Shem" for violin and orchestra), and Alfred Schnittke ("Moz-Art" for two violins and orchestra). Most recently, in December 2019, he performed Bach's Double Concerto for Oboe and Violin with Nigel Shore (oboe) and the Berlin Mozartinum at the Berlin Philharmonic.
As a chamber musician, he can be heard regularly at the French Cathedral in Berlin with the TARON String Quartet, of which he has been a founding member since 1995. Concert tours have taken the ensemble, along with German cities, to Finland, Sweden, Belgium, the USA, and Switzerland.
His many years of work as a stage musician have brought him to the Berliner Ensemble, the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Hebbel Theater, and the Atze Musiktheater, where he has worked with directors such as Claus Peymann. Guest performances in Brazil, Iran, France, and Switzerland followed.
His love for orchestral playing is pursued as a member of the Deutsche Kammerorchester Berlin, an ensemble that works without a conductor. Regular concertmaster substitute positions with the Berliner Symphoniker and temporary contracts with the Brandenburger Symphoniker lead him into the large symphonic repertoire and into opera.
In addition to performing, teaching plays an important role - he teaches as a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig, the Universität der Künste Berlin, the Akademie für Musik Berlin/Kalaidos Musikhochschule Zurich, and the Musikschule "Fanny Hensel" Berlin-Mitte.