Matthew Lipman

Viola and Chamber Music
matthew.lipman@stonybrook.edu

American violist Matthew Lipman has been praised by the New York Times for his “rich tone and elegant phrasing” and by the Chicago Tribune for a “splendid technique and musical sensitivity.” Recent seasons have included appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, American Symphony Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz, and the Minnesota Orchestra. He has performed recitals at Carnegie Hall, Aspen Music Festival, and the Zürich Tonhalle and was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to be a soloist at the New World Symphony Viola Visions Festival. He has appeared in chamber music with Anne-Sophie Mutter at the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, and on Deutsche Grammophon Stage+, and with mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton at Boston’s Celebrity Series, the Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center, premiering a piece by Joel Thompson. An alum of the Bowers Program, he performs regularly on tour and at Alice Tully Hall with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where he occupies the Wallach Chair, in addition to performances with his string trio consisting of violinist Stella Chen and cellist Brannon Cho. In 2022, he made his Sony Classical debut on The Dvořák Album, and his 2019 solo debut recording, Ascent, was released by Cedille Records, marking world premieres of the Shostakovich Impromptu and Clarice Assad Metamorfose. Additionally, he recorded the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Rachel Barton Pine and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by the late Sir Neville Marriner. An Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and major prize winner at the Primrose and Tertis International Viola Competitions, he studied with Heidi Castleman at The Juilliard School and Tabea Zimmermann at the Kronberg Academy. Lipman is on faculty at Stony Brook University, in addition to being a visiting professor at Juilliard, and he performs on a 2021 Samuel Zygmuntowicz viola, made for him in New York.