Homepage: www.danaematschke.com Danae Papamattheou - Matschke (or Papamatthäou-Matschke) belongs to the promising new generation of young violinists. Born in Athens, she takes her first violin lessons in her hometown, followed by studies at the “Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere” in Weimar with Jost Witter, the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Igor Ozim and the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg with Tanja Becker - Bender, all completed with the highest distinctions. Today she is PhD Candidate at the Macedonian University, Thessaloniki. As a soloist and enthusiastic chamber musician, she regularly appears at international music festivals as well as at the large music centres such as Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Beijing National Performing Arts Centre and the concert halls of Athens and Thessaloniki. She was repeatedly honoured with grants from international non-profit organizations for her outstanding achievements. She was a scholarship holder of the Association of Music Friends Athens, the “Alexandros S. Onassis Foundation”, the “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben”, the “Hermann and Milena Ebel Foundation” and the “Berenberg Bank Foundation”.