American violinist MATTHEW REICHERT, a silver medalist in the 1995 
Mondavi International Competition for Strings, has also attained top prizes in the 
Schubert Club, Thursday Musical, Greater Twin Cities Symphony, MacPhail 
Chamber Orchestra, Hopkins Symphony, and Young Peoples Symphony Concert 
Auditions of the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Women's Association of the 
Minnesota Orchestra Competitions.

     In addition to his success in competitions, Matthew Reichert was a recipient of the
Aspen Musical Festival's Music Associates of Aspen Fellowship Award and the 
Charles Petschek, Lilly S.Foldes, C.& H. Lewine, Liberace, and Benefit Performance 
scholarships as well as the Muriel Gluck Fellowship Award at the Juilliard School.

     A few recent performance highlights include recitals at Saint Peter's Church, 
The Alderton House and Levinson Hall in New York, Noontime Concerts at Old Saint
Mary's Church, Star Classics Concerts, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, 
a performace of the Shostakovich Violin Concerto, Op.99 and the Haydn Violin Concerto in C Major 
with The Performers, Ensemble of Greater New York, a performance sponsored by the Schubert Club 
at Landmark Center in Saint Paul (which was recorded for broadcast purposes by Minnesota Public 
Radio), two recitals at Corbett Hall in collaboration with the acclaimed pianist Sandra Rivers 
sponsored by the University of Cincinnati, collaborations with the KLANGFARBEN ensemble in New 
York City, recitals in the Twin Cities sponsored by Thursday Musical, and the Copin Society, a 
performance of the Bach Concerto in D minor with the Young Artists Orchestra of the Aspen Musical 
Festival, and a performance in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall (sponsored by KYVAS of New York). In
addition Mr.Reichert gave four recitals at Juilliard's Michael Pall Hall at Lincoln Center and 
performed in the historical town of Spillville, Iowa for the Dvorak Societies Centennial 
Celebration Performances.

     Matthew Reichert has performed in the master class of Dorothy DeLay, Itzhak Perlman, Yehudi Menuhin, 
Joseph Silverstein, Eduard Melkus, Joseph Swenson, Mark Peskanov, Lea Foli, Henry Meyer, Felix Galimir, 
and the members of the Tokyo Sring Quartet.

     Matthew Reichert began violin studies at the age of five at the MacPhail Institute in his native 
Minneapolis.  In 1985 he was accepted into the studio of the renowned violin pedagogue Dorothy Delay at the 
Aspen Music School in Aspen, Colorado. He returned to Aspen for the following two summers and moved to New York in 
1988 to continue with Ms.DeLay at the prestigious Julliard School.

     Mr.Reichert is on the faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.