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Toronto native Matthew Christakos has accepted a place because the Affiliate Principal Cello of the New York Philharmonic within the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair. His appointment was efficient January 2024.
Matthew started to play the cello on the age of 4. He went on to review music on the RCM’s Phil and Eli Taylor Efficiency Academy for Younger Artists. Throughout his time there, he received the concerto competitors, and carried out as a soloist with the Academy Chamber Orchestra. Different honours embody:
- Winner of the 2019 Canada Council for the Arts’s Michael Measures Prize;
- Second prize on the Canadian Music Competitors 2019
- First prize on the 2017 Toronto Kiwanis Music Competition President’s Trophy Competitors.
Matthew’s musical training included performing with the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Nationwide Youth Orchestra of Canada. He toured Canada and Spain as featured soloist with the NYOC.
Matthew Christakos performs with Alison Kim, Violin, Hannah Corbett, Violin and Michael Langford, Viola: Dvořáokay – String Quartet #10 Op. 51 in E Flat (NYO 2019 Chamber Music recital):
He then continued his research on the Curtis Institute of Music, the place he additionally served as principal cello within the Curtis Symphony Orchestra.
His music apply additionally consists of instructing. Matthew was on the cello school on the Music Niagara’s 2020 Efficiency Academy, in addition to at The Dream College in Philadelphia.
Congratulations to Matthew!
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.
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