Matthias Bartolomey

Cello and jury

Matthias Bartolomey (Vienna, 1985) started playing the cello aged 7 and received his first lessons from his father. Later, he studied in Vienna with Valentin Erben, cellist of the Alban Berg Quartet, and in Salzburg with Clemens Hagen. Since 2020, he has been a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg himself. Together with Klemens Bittmann (violin and bandola) he forms BartolomeyBittmann, a duo with which he has repeatedly been a great hit at the Biënnale and, in 2022, with the Metropole Orchestra. Matthias is also the principal cellist of Concentus Musicus Wien, founded by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Matthias Bartolomey plays on a David Tecchler cello made in 1727.

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