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A member of the artist-faculty
of the North Carolina School of the Arts, Clifton Matthews holds
undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Juilliard School.
He
has been the recipient of two Fulbright awards for study in Munich,
Germany. In addition to his faculty position at the North
Carolina School of the Arts, Mr. Matthews has taught for many
years on the summer faculty of the Tibor Varga Festival in Sion,
Switzerland. He presents master classes around the country,
recently at the Boston Conservatory, the Levine School in
Washington, D.C., and the Settlement Music School of
Philadelphia. He has also given master classes in France at the
American Conservatory in Fontainebleau and at the Conservatoire
Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence. Through the support of
the International Music Program of NCSA, many of Mr. Matthews'
NCSA students have been able to participate in these European
venues, and the student body of the Winston-Salem campus has
been enriched by the many foreign students who have followed him
from European classes to enroll at the North Carolina School of
the Arts. Mr. Matthews has also taught at
Quebec's "Musica Estiva", and has given master classes
as well in Durham and Bristol in the United Kingdom, and in Finland.
He performs frequently in recitals in the United States and
Europe, commanding a wide repertoire including the premieres of
several works by contemporary American composers, the complete
Well-Tempered Clavier of J.S. Bach, and the complete
Beethoven Sonatas for piano and violin.
His students have won numerous awards and competitions,
including the University of Maryland William Kappell
Competition, the Kosciuszko Competition, the Indianapolis
Beethoven Competition, the North Carolina Symphony Competition,
the Atlanta Mozarteum Competition, and, four times, the Artists
International Competition leading to debut recitals in New York
City. Mr. Matthews' students can be found on the
faculties of several prestigious American conservatories and educational
institutions as well as in major concert venues in the United
States, Korea, France, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Mr. Matthews'
annual presentation of his class of students in the complete
piano works of major composers is a widely admired part of the
city's musical life: over the years in these regular winter
concerts audiences have heard the students perform both books of the
Well-Tempered Clavier, the Mozart Sonatas, the 32
Beethoven Sonatas, the Schubert sonatas, and the bulk of piano
works by Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, and Ravel.
Mr. Matthews' early studies were at the Kansas City
Conservatory. His teachers have included Irwin Freundlich,
Wiktor Labunski, Friedrich Wuhrer, Guido Agosti and Victor Babin.
He holds the Casella Prize for piano playing from the Academia Chigiana in Siena, Italy.
Before coming to the North
Carolina School of the Arts, Mr. Matthews had served as a member
of the faculties of the Juilliard Preparatory School, Skidmore
College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In
1998 he was the recipient of the North Carolina Board of
Governors Award for excellence in teaching.
For further information about Mr. Matthews' class at NCSA,
about the summer session at NCSA, or about summer piano study at
the Academy of Music in Sion, Switzerland, contact Mr. Matthews
at 336/722-5838 or at
rmatthews7@triad.rr.com.
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