Enjoy the representative violin sonatas of five music masters in one night.

Stanko Matić has served as the first concertmaster of the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2018 and is also the co-first violinist of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. In this concert, he will work with pianist Diana Hasani to bring representative masterpieces of five music masters, including Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Saint-Saëns and Franck, leading the audience to feel the beauty of the bow and strings of violin art.
 
Violin: Stanko Matić
Stanko Matić is the first concertmaster of the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra and the co-concertmaster of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. Stanko Matić is one of the most versatile musicians in the European music world today. He has extensive experience in solo, chamber music and orchestral performances and enjoys a high reputation in the German classical music world. Stanko Matić was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1984.
He began studying violin at the age of 6 with Professor Robert Toshkov, and later with Professor Yudjan Mihajlovic. At the age of 14, he was admitted to the Belgrade Conservatory of Music with first place, studying with Professor Mihajlovic. At the age of 17, he graduated with first place again and received several national awards and commendations. At the age of 19, he graduated with a master's degree from the Novi Sad State Academy of Arts under the guidance of Mihajlovic. From 2010 to 2012, he studied at the Dresden Conservatory of Music in Germany with Professor Igor Malinovsky and obtained his second master's degree, specializing in soloist and principal performance. From 2008 to 2011, he served as a violinist in the world-renowned Dresden State Orchestra. From 2011 to 2018, he served as the first principal of the Nuremberg National Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2018, Stanko Matić began to serve as the first principal of the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra.

In addition, he is the concertmaster of the Orchestra Without Borders and has recorded CDs for Deutsche Grammophon, touring the world. He has also collaborated as guest concertmaster with orchestras in Germany and around the world, including the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, Dresden State Orchestra, Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra, Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian National Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, etc.

As soloist, chamber and orchestral musician he collaborates with the world’s most renowned artists such as: Martha Argerich, Albrecht Meyer, Camilla Nylund, Zubin Mehta, Sir Colin Davis, Maurizio Pollini, Mischa Maisky, Julian Rachlin, Anya Harteros, Emanuel Ax, Rudolf Buchbinder, Lela Auerbach, Sergio Azzolini, Plácido Domingo, Daniel Geiss, Julia Okruashvili, Emanuel Pahud and many others. Stanko Matić has performed with all Belgrade orchestras as well as the Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Saint-Malo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra National de Lorraine, Bremen Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Johannesburg Symphony, KwaZulu-Natal Symphony, Orchestra Without Borders, Nuremberg National Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Munich Radio Symphony.

Stanko Matić plays a violin made by Carlo Carletti in 1908, which was sponsored by the Nuremberg Commercial Bank, and a modern violin made especially for him by Savva Girshenko.