Elisabeth Matesky

Internationally recognised American Solo Violinist, performing-recording concert artist, television-film personality; Master Solo Violin Mentor, Chamber Music & Orchestral Repertoire Bowing Expert; rare Carrier of the Heifetz-Milstein Legacy of Greatest Violin Playing & Mentoring, Elisabeth Matesky, is also a music writer & speaker, published in the AST Journal; London Strad Magazine w/guest published articles in theguardian.com; UK slippeddisc.com; Violinist.com, nytimes.com & Illinois State ASTA magazine, the 'Scroll'. *Matesky was a Core contributor to the LinkedIn online 5 Year Discussion of Professor Nick Hulme of Thames Valley University in London, titled, 'Top 10 Greatest Violinists of All Time (I, II, III, IV,V)', having 2017 honoured their 'Top 10 Greatest Violinist #1 of All Time', Jascha Heifetz, on the *October 27th, 2017, Greatest Violin Master, Heifetz's Centenery, of his NYC Carnegie Hall Violin Recital Debut of *October 27, 1917, w/Heifetz Violin Master Class former 5 yr '65- '70 Pianist, Gerald Robbins, sending a 'Heifetz Centenery Toast on 10/27/2017' from NYC, w/renowned Int'l Violinist colleagues including Buenos Aires Philharmonic Leader, Pablo Saravi; UK Violinist -Teachers, FB's Simon Alexander Scott; late Roger Stimson, FRAM/UK & FB's Robert Masarachi/an EM pupil; Marcello Canci, Prof of Violin, Santa Cecilia Conservatory, Rome, It;*Joel Quivey, Lect Violin, UC in Chico; *Raphael Klayman of NY/NJ & Bibi Pelic, Professor of Violin, Prague Conservatory & rare David Oistrakh protege, honouring The Master, Jascha Heifetz, E. Matesky's Mentor, unanimously upon his 'Reign' as the GOAT Violinist, and One Hundred Years after Jascha Heifetz's Historic Carnegie Hall Violin Recital Debut & his 1st live public concert violin recital performance on US Soil in New York City ~ As is said: 'The Rest is History'!

Elisabeth's violin studies/rare pedigree began with her Juilliard father-teacher Grad, Ralph Matesky, (acclaimed NYC violinist/ music composer to RKO, Warner Bros & Paramount Motion Picture Studios; Supervisor, Compton City Schools String's Programme; USC Professor/String Educator & former ASTA National President),@age 3, fused w/Piano, Music Theory/ Harmony studies under her loving mother - pianist (Alternate Pianist w/L. Stein, to Professor *Arnold Schoenberg's most advanced UCLA classes in Theory; Form & Analysis; public Orchestral Structure & Composition & *Toscha Seidel first choice pianist) until age 16, which eventually propelled their daughter into world renowned Jascha Heifetz's Original Violin Master Class at USC's Institute for Special Music Studies also including her film in the 'Jascha Heifetz Violin Master Class' series on YouTube, in her 1/2 hour performance/lesson w/Heifetz in 'Jascha Heifetz Violin Master Class-Khachaturian, JH-7, Elisabeth Matesky (Russian vers. Library Master Performers) now on https://www.bili.bili.com or French site https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuqw60 {to be pasted in browser} & graduation from USC w/the Bachelor of Music Special Violin Performance Degree/Heifetz; Outstanding Chamber Musician Award, plus the 2 yr Fulbright Fellowship to London's Royal College of Music, w/Spanish repertoire expert, Violinist Antonio Brosa, & whilst at RCM honoured w/a rare Invite from fabled French Pianist, Mme Nadia Boulanger, to the young Elisabeth Matesky, to violin partner her in Stravinsky's 'Duo Concertante' Mvt's for Violin et Piano, Live, in the RCM Great Hall for a co Paris/CBS TV Film Documentary on rare musical aspects of Mme Boulanger's fabled performing and teaching of her famed 'student' composer's, Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber & Aaron Copland, filmed live at RCM, w/the TV Film premiering in France & America in the '60's, also falling on the heels of EM's Visiting Violin Soloist/ Coach/Leader, Oxford University Chamber Orchestra of Brasenose College, Oxford, UK, & Ms. Matesky's London soloist w/Orchestra debut in Brahms' Violin Concerto w/Sir Adrian Boult@the podium. The Matesky Brahms w/Boult debut had such critical & public acclaim, Elisabeth Matesky was then invited to represent the U.S. in 1965's First Sibelius International Violin Competition in Helsinki, FI. Upon winning the Sibelius' '65 International Violin Competition 'Special Award for Best Solo Bach' & rare invitation from Madame Jean Sibelius to perform the 'Adagio di molto' of Sibelius' Violin Concerto for the Family of Sibelius, including all Five Sibelius Daughters of The Master, for The Official Finnish Government Inaugural Concert/Ceremony w/Finland's Minister of Culture proclaiming the Hameenlinna birth-house of Master Composer, Jean Sibelius, the 'Sibelius National Memorial Museum' on his *December 8th 1965 Centenery Birthday (radio broadcast-televised live in Finland, Scandinavia & Continental Europe), + a personal honour of receiving homegrown flowers from ailing Madame Jean Sibelius' garden from her Five Daughters, 'as our Mother's Thank you present, Ms. Matesky, for playing the slow mov't of father's Violin Concerto for his 100th Birthday!', all gave birth to young Elisabeth Matesky's artistry then becoming widely known in Finland, all of Scandinavia, Continental Europe & throughout The United Kingdom.

Following all above Events plus concert tours of Scandinavia in Sibelius' Violin Concerto, Elisabeth Matesky was signed and listed on the Violin Roster of Wilfrid Van Wyck Concert Artist Mgmt., Ltd, in London, w/Ruggiero Ricci, Henryk Szeryng & Nathan Milstein. Matesky's international concert/ recording career began as a BBC Radio/Television Recording Artist then expanded into concert recital tours to major European music capital's, London, Uddevalla, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Wien, Berlin, Valencia in Spain, Hamburg, Geneva, Zurich, Amsterdam & Bergen, flourishing in the US, in both recital & a much coveted Violin Soloist w/orchestra's of Baltimore, Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, then titled Syracuse Symphony, Los Angeles Westside Orch., Rockford Symphony, St. Louis Summer 'little' Symphony, and with Poland's Paderewski Philharmonie, Polish NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, & special conductor - soloist musical collaboration w/father, Ralph Matesky's Logan Utah State Orch., in Beethoven's Violin Concerto, premiering her own E. Matesky segue 3rd Mov't Cadenza, + more international concert tours as violin soloist w/London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Radio Wales Philharmonic, BBC Radio Symphony in Manchester, Norwich Orch., UK, English Chamber Orchestra, + EM German Debut recording of Dimitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto #1 in a minor, Op. 99, w/the Bamberger Symphoniker/Hermann Michael, {HvK's Associate Conductor for Berlin Philharmonic} by acclaimed Sudwestdeutsche Rundfunk, attracting return violin recital's in London's Wigmore Hall, London South Bank Purcell Room, St. John Smith's Sq., the Harrogate Festival (BBC Live Radio Recital), Film 'EM Live in Leicester' (BBC London TV), & the honoured US Violinist for the London BBC's 'Beethoven at 200' Radio 3 London broadcast of Beethoven's Sonata for Piano & Violin No. 8 in G Major live performance with London Pianist, Peter Croser. EM then toured as Violin Soloist w/Hong Kong Philharmonic/Hans Gunter Mommer, German Conductor, in Sibelius' Violin Concerto & in Recital at the Hong Kong City Hall, + EM annual recital tours of the U.S., with many invitations to tour Italy, Russia, Israel, Philippines, Brazil,*Poland revisit, Eire, *Rumania & Switzerland, followed w/a produced series of EM Live Radio/ TV concert recordings, titled 'Elisabeth Matesky Plays', on CD & DVD. Although rare, CD/ DVD's are available on special request w/$£fee c/o US Concert Artist Representative, Dale M. Golden, via Bus Email: goldenattorney@hotmail.com. (Available 'by Special Request DVD's' of Ms. Matesky's 2009 ASTA National Live Conference Address,**'Elisabeth Matesky on Nathan Milstein: Icon of the Violin, Artist Teacher, Person & Friend I Knew,' can now be obtained by contacting an EM Rep, Dale Golden, via Bus. Email ~ goldenattorney@hotmail.com & on Subject Line ~ "Attention: 'E. Matesky on Milstein ASTA '09 National Live Atlanta Conference Formal Address'). Some EM CD's, DVD's, VHS, cassette & reel to reel recordings are in process of transfer remastering for online readiness in earlier 2023 initially, w/many other's slated for Summer '23, in the offing, tbd & tba.)

Ms. Matesky credits her meeting *Nathan Milstein (through his great colleague & former Leopold Auer St. Petersburg famed class-mate, London's greatest violin 'Guru', Sascha Lasserson, with whom she'd studied via RX of *Heifetz), who arranged for protege Elisabeth to play the Chaconne of Bach for Milstein at his home in London - (& upon hearing her play Bach, invited Ms. Matesky to study with him as his 1st private artist-pupil), the ultimate 'baptism' of her violinistic musical approach/sound & artistry. Their Master-Mentor ~ Artist-pupil relationship would last over 3 & 1/2 years, *including Elisabeth's p.t. Helper -Teach assistant-ship to Nathan Milstein pupil's needing extra tips on Mr. Milstein's ideas re bowing techniques for Milstein's International Zurich Violin Master Courses starting Summer ('70-'72) and on 'Standby' full 70's, all of which forged lifetime friendships w/Nathan Milstein, his pianist wife, Therese, their daughter & many other cherished members of the Nathan Milstein Family ~

Upon her private artist-pupil tutorial's with Nathan Milstein, Ms. Matesky is quoted saying,"my life was incredibly changed from 'most gifted' to unimaginable best's once Milstein invited me to be his 1st private artist pupil. Those 'other world' 3 & 1/2 years in Milstein's rarified world of sound-color plus unique musical discernment and extraordinary bowing were a dream, which I term my 'Blue Period' of truly enriched musical growth - a huge bouquet of technical awareness, including my completely NM enlightened altered bowing, while re-visiting vast amounts of great Violin Concerti, concert pieces & Bach's Unaccompanied Sonatas & Partitas for the Violin. Mr. Milstein jokingly referred to me as his 'guinea pig', because as he used to say, 'you play well enough so I can experiment on a pupil of Heifetz!', was the prime privilege of my life to be in 'Milsteinianna', welcomed as a member of his family. Mr. Milstein deserves all the credit for lifting my playing w/enriched musical awareness & teaching to infinitely greater heights never imagined."

For a comprehensive Profile on multi-faceted aspects of her musical career & partial discography, filmed musical listing of performances + her 2009 ASTA address on Nathan Milstein, try www.linkedin.com/in/elisabeth-matesky- to view a 2016 earlier profiled musical/writing career/life. *If accessing the EM LinkedIn online Profile, do note Ms. Matesky's greatly enriched tenure in the *Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the invitation of Sir Georg Solti, Music Director/Conductor, {after her Soloist/ Concertmaster post w/formerly titled Syracuse Symphony of New York, now *Symphoria}, who left a beloved London home for another residence in Chicago, whilst still maintaining very strong US-UK ties, both as a performing concert artist w/guest residencies as Artist Teacher of Violin & Chamber Music in London, while also Chair of the String Dept & Artist Teacher of Violin w/Artist Teacher of 'Cello, Nathaniel Rosen, at the 100+ year old original American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, followed by her resident Artist Lecturer in Violin position at the Chicago College for Performing Arts, of Roosevelt University, including continued collaborative guest Artist Teacher of Violin residencies at Trinity College of Music/ London, & the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, FI, all of which took root in 1972 at Syracuse University, NY, resulting in her later privately founded Elisabeth Matesky Studio for Advanced Violin, Chamber Music, Orchestral Concertmaster bowed Solo repertoire & Violin Soloist Bowing Studies in Chicago ~

Matesky pupils, aka, Heifetz & Nathan Milstein 'grand pupil's', now occupy high posts in major Asian, American & European Orchestra's including the Hong Kong Philharmonic; Milwaukee Symphony; Grant Park Festival Symphony Orchestra/Chicago; London BBC Radio Symphony Orchestra w/many EM private pupil's teaching & concertising as violin soloist's in Taiwan, U.S., Barcelona in Spain; & EM 'weird' pupil touring as an EM taught international 'rock' star pupil + A.W., Ph D pupil grad honoured musician in ex Conductor, Sir Andrew Davis' Lyric Opera Orch of Chicago. Matesky is proud of private pupil's with 'day job's' including a Harvard Grad in Law pupil in service of NYC 3rd District Court Judge; Canadian ACM Pupil, now Dr. of Music Injury Therapy in Toronto & online in Sydney (AU) violin pupil - newly fledged U.S. Attorney at Law, who practised in NYC's Manhattan 3rd District for Judge 'Bernie' + online Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of Music, Birmingham, UK studious Pupil/Violinist, R. R., in newer UK & London Hospital Project as the 'In House' Violinist Music Expert Therapist MD helping Autism patients to learn playing Violin/other string cousins as New RX Frontiers in Human Communication. EM 'day job' P.T. pupil's continuing as sub soloists & orchestral players in string ensembles include Sarah H., Attorney at Law/Foundress New South Wales Barristers' Symphony Orchestra in Sydney, AU, co-joining prominent New York Orchestral Society as a 'pro' amateur in March of 2019, + Indiana University/Bloomington former Franco Gulli violin pupil who transferred to E. Matesky @ACM w/extended 6 yr private advanced bowing study, D. Grode, now an A+ rated respected Estate Law Attorney. International EM pupils include many mentored in London, from *all UK and Paris; + one of Greater grand niece's and HRH titled of the late HRH Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, {violin pupil of Eugen Ysaye} & Foundress of The First Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Violin Competition in memory of Her Majesty's beloved Violin Teacher, Ysaye, still held once every 4 years in Brussels, and rare Finnish born pupils in advanced solo bowing + orchestral bowing technique in Helsinki, FI.

*Elisabeth Matesky was honoured-invited by Potus Jimmy Carter to perform a Solo Violin Recital at The White House for The State Dinner honouring his visiting guest, French Premier Raymond Barre, including both U.S. - French Cabinet's upon their signing of the U.S. - French Agreement re then Concorde routes to & from New York's JFK Int'l airport & Wash, D.C.'s now Reagan Int'l airport routes to Charles de Gaulle Int'l in Paris. Her performance of Mozart's V/P Sonata, K. 301 in G w/Viennese pianist, H. Wurman, & Ysaye's Solo Violin Sonata #3 in D, "Ballade", inspired a typed w/handwritten letter to her from the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, writing, 'The Mozart was beautiful & Prime Minister Barre's (father) was a personal friend of Ysaye. Upon your performance of the Ysaye, we were all thrilled! ... Jimmy" ~ September 16, 1977

*Elisabeth Matesky has been honoured dedicatee of US/UK Composers works for Violin including R. Dolmetsche's Solo Caprice; Jeffrey Bishop {ret Oxford Univ Press} Violin Pieces with piano acc., & Dr. Merrill Bradshaw, BYU Distinguished Prof of Composition, 1st Violin Concerto 'In Memoriam of Ralph Matesky', composed for/premiered by E. Matesky/BYU Symphony, PBS Salt Lake City TV Broadcast; plus Chicagoan Doug Lofstrom's lauded 'Hawk! for Solo Violin' w/Elisabeth Matesky Cadenza, recorded /premiered by Elisabeth Matesky on WFMT 98.7 FM Classical Fine Arts Radio, circa Jan '91.

*Impromptu, Ms. Matesky dedicated her July 29, 1981, Live Chicago Dame Myra Hess Recital performance of Solo Bach Partita #2 in d 'Chaconne' to the marriage of HRH The Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer, HRH Princess Diana, Live, on WFMT FM 98.7 Fine Arts Radio Broadcast +Violin/Piano Sonata of Brahms #3 following & her Encore of Kreisler's 'Liebeslied' w/Viennese Pianist, Hans Wurman at the Piano ~ {Who could have known it would be the tragic fate of beloved Princess Diana, later, on 8.31.'97, in Paris ...}

Writing/Film Honors =printed EM piece, 'Mountains of Energy' on endurance required to perform Sibelius' Violin Concerto in reference to comments: (the Strad January 2016 issue Cover Story), on Leonidas Kavakos 'experiencing exhaustion prior to the 3rd movement Allegro ma non tanto', w/portion's of E. Matesky's "Treatise on Sibelius' Violin Concerto 'Mt. Everest' Challenge", featured in London's March 2016 Strad issue, p.10, 'Letter to the Editor of the Month', & Elisabeth Matesky's view on Tennis Paralleled Serving Techniques=Violin Bowing @https://www. theguardian.com/sport/2018/jul/07/rafael-nadal-pulls-no punches.www.profile.theguardian.com/user/id/1395780= page 1 {under 'LondonSeventyOne' published post, July, 2018}. Not until '20 now mentioned, exists a small portion on the 'God's Fiddler' sound track in the 2012 film on Jascha Heifetz, which contains clipped film footage of Heifetz conversing w/pupil, Elisabeth Matesky, at a music stand - inserted from her Jascha Heifetz Violin Master Class film-Khachaturian, JH-7, Elisabeth Matesky (Rus version YT?| Try https://www.bili.bili.com/Khach} see same featuring JH VMC Elisabeth Matesky playing 1st Mvt of Aram Khachaturian's Violin Con. to Heifetz w/JH Violin Master Class Pianist, Brooks Smith, at piano, accompanying her in a small portion of *em w/piano Audio on a to date, no screen credit yet given to Elisabeth Matesky nor JH Violin Master Class now late pianist, Brooks Smith, for their playing of the Khachaturian 1st Mov't portion on the *audio soundtrack in 'God's Fiddler', {and will soon be addressed for screen/audio recognition after a prolonged reasonable period of time.}

*Honoured 1996-2022: London List of Patrons of 'The Sascha Lasserson Memorial Trust' -*Lady Walton, Sir Ron Dearing CB **Gennady Rozhdetsvensky; Sir David Lumsden MA, Ph.D; Nona Liddell MBE; ^Elisabeth Matesky, Lord Menuhin OM; Carl Pini Hon RCM, Bishop John V Taylor, Lionel Bentley Hon RAM -*Trevor Williams FRAM. Late Patrons, Sir Adrian Boult, CH; Sir Anthony Lewis CBE; Sir John Pritchard CBE & Hon Sir William Walton OM, all admirer's of Sascha Lasserson. (The Trust, a registered Charity, founded by William Ebsworth Hill & Sons, London & Margot Macgibbon ARAM, is prized ~)**= newer recent morte ~

EM Master Teaching & Performance TV ('92-'13) Films include 'EM Violin Master Classes/Chicago Style'; EM, Guest Leader, Carnegie Hall Orchestra-* 'Home Alone II: Lost in New York' (Twentieth Century Fox, DT/Macauley Caulkin, w/EM in 'Live Motion' Play/'92); 'EM 1996 Violin Master Classes @Trinity College of Music/London'; Master Teaching Lesson & Recital at the Sibelius Academy of Music/ Helsinki, FI/'99; new current future International Artist Teaching project's including unique {(c)"Elisabeth Matesky Violin Master Courses:'Violinists Love In' London '23 "} *Inquiries of those interested re *2023 active performing vita's/DVD's to play visit EM FB Timeline: *https:// www.facebook.com/elisabeth.anne.775?fref=nf {then contact E. Matesky or Secretariat, Odens International Mgmt US, via Ms. Matesky c/o *elisabethmatesky@gmail.com ** re 'JH/NM Private Elisabeth Matesky Advanced Violin Studies Studio'} ~

EM Violin Master Classes, TBD, will focus on Ms. Matesky teaching techniques fused w/highlights of technical-musical ideas from Violin Mentor's, Jascha Heifetz & Nathan Milstein, for London in late 2023 (delayed to Covid-19 pandemic) which may pay NM Tribute Commemoration on Milstein Anniversary passing of 31 years honouring her Mentor, NM's 12/'92 Loss in London, with a 2022 pre targeted deadline, *February 14, '23, w/^submitted application CV +1 Solo Bach performing video to be emailed above w/EM then accepting invited pupils by target date *8. 10. '23, allowing ample time/email mutual exchanges re agreed violin concert repertoire & if still not Travel Safe more *extra preparation time.)*1 Piano String Trio or S.Q. may also be accepted ~

Project "Elisabeth Matesky Violinists 'Love In' in London' ", will be tailored for both young to the more mature aged violinists inclusively, w/artist expectation of performance skills *altho' not solely 'star' talents w/auditing audience members of genuine interest/love of many facets of violin playing - music making to also be most welcome to hear a few of Elisabeth Matesky favoured stories on Heifetz & her shared Milstein Tributes in 12/23, 31st Yr since Milstein's 1992 passing in a hoped for never featured London 'venue', tbd in 2023 & tba in 2023 re Venue location & COVID restrictions in UK/Internationally ~

*Update: 11. 11. 22 ~ In process talks had begun & were afoot for an "Elisabeth Matesky Intimate Series of By Invitation Only Violin/ Chamber Music + *Q & A re both her Iconic Mentor's, Jascha Heifetz & Nathan Milstein", w/an unusual *New Music Approach/slant on those suffering *dementia titled, "EM Recall of The Music Technique" (c)10/2019EM, debuting during US Elisabeth Matesky Guest Artist Teaching Appearances w/ 'EM Recall Clinics, US', & abroad tbd in 2023 online Live, now Nov 11, 2022, but check here for *New Updates posted &/or newly amended due to the ongoing Covid-19 Crisis re CDC Safety Advisories for gatherings re Home & Travel in the US, UK & Europe amid constant changing Updates re Omicron, BA.4/ BA.5 + late '22 which Covid Experts are ongoing researching.*

New Author, Elisabeth Matesky, is in process of compiling her 55 yr highlighted Career & Life in a Music Autobiography to be date readied by Oct 2023 ~ Loving People from her Life are invited to contribute memories recalled which have uplifted their own lives and careers in music ='review worthy'. Contact Elisabeth Matesky via her Business Email: **elisabethmatesky@gmail.com with Subject: 'Matesky Invited Special Memories I Recall, Signed ........' Verified Replies will be reviewed and EM responded ~ Thanking Sincere + Music Savvy Writer skilled Submitter's ~

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