Matthias Naegele

 

Matthias NaegeleCellist Matthias Naegele has performed extensively as soloist and chamber musician in Europe, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Asia. He has participated in several music festivals including the Marlboro, Apple Hill, Dubrovnik, Jerusalem, Curagao, California State Summer Arts, Aspen, International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, and the Edinburgh Festivals. Many of Naegele's performances have been broadcast over National Public Radio and Public Television in the United States as well as on Dutch, French, Austrian, BBC radio, and BBC television.

Matthias has performed with numerous chamber music ensembles, including the Utrecht based Cugnon Project and the contemporary ensemble Insomnio, the Chamber Music Society of New York University, Anthony Newman's Brandenburg Collegium, the Chamber Music Society of New Jersey, Sergio Luca's Context, An Die Musik, and the New york based microtonal group New Band. He has participated in many series including the Lincoln Center Great Performers Series in New York, and the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam. Matthias recordings include the New Jersey Chamber Music Society for Koch International, Prometheus Piano Quartet for Centaur Records, with soprano Dawn Upshaw for Nonesuch and with his father, violinist Philipp Naegele for Musical Heritage Society and Beyer Records.

Matthias plays on a Mateo Gofriller cello made in Venice in 1735. This cello was previously owned by Hermann Busch of the Busch Quartet.