Teaching Area(s)
Violin
Suzuki
Education
MM DePaul University
BM Bob Cole Conservatory
Courses Taught
Violin
About
Violinist Kiyoe Matsuura is an
emerging early music artist with a background in orchestra, chamber music, and
solo performance. On baroque violin she has performed with the Bach and
Beethoven Ensemble and harpsichordists Alexander Weimann, Ketil Haugsand, and
Jason Moy. Ms. Matsuura was a co-founder of the period ensemble, MENT Consort, the
first of its kind at DePaul University.
As an orchestra musician, Ms.
Matsuura has played under conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Charles Dutoit,
Symon Bychkov, Robert Spano, Ludovic Morlot, David Robertson, Cristian
Macelaru, and Nicolas Kraemer, in venues including the Chicago Symphony Center,
Ford Amphitheater, Aratani Theater, Royce Hall, Segerstrom Center, and the Warner
Bros Scoring Stage.
In 2013 Ms. Matsuura commissioned
a new work by composer Jung Won Edward Park, The Music Is Fleeting, for violin, cello, clarinet, and vibraphone.
Ms. Matsuura has performed chamber music in the Zhou B. Art Center, Art Share
L.A., and the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach.
As a soloist, Ms. Matsuura was
featured on the Irvine Chamber Players’ orchestra tours of Italy at Piazza San
Lorenzo, Chiesa del Redentore, Chiesa Valdese, and Chiesa San Francesco, and of
France at Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine and Eglise de Saint Trophime.
In 2016, Ms. Matsuura joined
Fifth House Ensemble for a concert tour of fourteen U.S. cities with REM’s Mike
Mills and violin soloist Robert McDuffie. She has also performed on the
Vietnamese pop series Asia 76 and with Persian singer Moein.
Ms. Matsuura holds a Master of
Music degree from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Music from the Bob Cole
Conservatory in Southern California. She has been a participant in the Baroque
Performance Institute at Oberlin, Aspen Music Festival and School, Bowdoin
International Music Festival, Montecito International Music Festival,
University of Nebraska Chamber Music Institute, Sierra Summer Festival, and Green
Mountain Chamber Music Institute. Her primary violin teachers were Janet Sung,
Lorenz Gamma, and Georgette Popa.
Ms. Matsuura is a Suzuki
Certified violin educator. She is on faculty at DePaul’s Community Music
Division and maintains a private studio in the Chicago area.