Prof. Mathis Christoph
Honorary professor for chamber music and guitar didactics
- 1978–1982: Degree at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, majoring in the subject of Guitar under Monika Rost and Roland Zimmer, degree: diploma, result: very good
- 1982–1984: Postgraduate degree (back then, evening classes and distance learning) under Roland Zimmer
- 1982–1991: Guitar teacher at the music schools of Leinefelde and Jena
- 1982–1986: Lectureship in School Music, Guitar and School-Based Guitar-Playing, at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
- Founded and led the ‘Gioite Tutti Consort’ (ensemble for Renaissance music), involvement with performance practice, playing the lute and the basso continuo; concerts, trips, radio recordings
- Lute player in the Handel Festival Orchestra Halle, guitarist at the Städtische Bühnen Erfurt (Municipal Stages Erfurt)
- 1986 to present: Lectureship at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, in the subjects of Guitar and Chamber Music
- 1987 to present: Guitarist at the Staatskapelle Weimar (State Orchestra Weimar) (participation at concerts, operas, musicals and chamber music matinees)1989 - 1
- 996: Annual participation at the Innsbruck’s Sommerakademie für alte Musik (Summer Academy of Early Music); lute/basso continuo under Nigel North, chamber music under Charles Medlam and performance practice under Jessica Cash and Ingrid Seifert
- 1990 to present: Lecturing in conducting
- 1992–1997: Employed at the Music Department of the Pedagogical University of Erfurt, lecturer in guitar – practical school-based playing
- 1995 to present: Leadership of the ‘Capell und Cammermusik’ ensemble in Weimar (students, graduates and teachers from the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar), annual projects, concerts, recordings for the MDR, collaboration with the Weimar Art Festival1995/9
- 7: Leadership of seminars for early music (NRW Regional Academy, UoM Weimar) and baroque guitar, ornamentation, articulation, interpretation of early dances using traditional choreography
- 1997 to present: Music therapist at the Sophien und Hufeland Klinikum Weimar, working with children and young people with behavioural problems
- 1998 to present: Leadership of seminars for teachers, departments of education (song accompaniment, basso continuo, perception training with music)
- 1994–1998: Courses in ensemble playing at the Music Gymnasium ‘Schloss Belvedere’
- 2001–2003: Schloss Kromsdorf and EJBW youth chamber music course
- 2000 to present: Organisation, leadership and collaboration on the ‘Guitar Night Tiefurt’Vario
- us concert performances as a chamber musician (including with Peter Schreier, Mark Tucker, Norico Kimura, Christiane Spannhof, the Weimar Baroque Ensemble and others)
- Recordings for MDR Figaro, recording of a CD with the ‘Capell und Cammermusik Weimar’ (conductor)
- 2006/07: Musical director of Goethe’s musical comedy ‘Die Fischerin’ (The Fisherwoman) in Tiefurter Park
- 2007: Appointment as an honorary professor for chamber music at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
- Directed the performance of ‘Fratres’ by Arvo Pärt for guitar, strings and percussion, as part of the 8th Guitar Night Tiefurt; directed the rehearsals and the concert with the Dresden Guitar Ensemble during the autumn course held by the Weimar Guitar Association
- 2009/10: Artistic direction of the performance of ‘Erwin und Elmire’ by Anna Amalia as part of the Sommertheater Tiefurt, university concert to mark the occasion of Leo Brouwer’s 70th birthday