Heike Matthiesen

{{Short description|German classical guitarist (1964–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Heike Matthiesen | image = Heike Matthiesen.jpg | caption = Matthiesen in 2009 | birth_date = {{birth date|1964|06|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, West Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|12|22|1964|06|27|df=y}} | death_place = | occupation = Classical guitarist | website = {{URL|https://heikematthiesen.com/en/home-2/}} }}

'''Heike Matthiesen''' (27 June 1964 – 22 December 2023) was a German classical guitarist who appeared internationally as a soloist and with ensembles. She promoted music by women composers and used social media for the distribution of classical music. Her 2016 solo album ''Guitar Ladies'' features works by women, written from the 19th to the 21st century, including a piece written for her and other first recordings.

== Life and career == === Early life and education === Matthiesen was born in Braunschweig<ref name="Wosnitzka 2021" /> into a family of classical musicians; her father was a choral conductor and her mother a pianist. From early childhood, she enjoyed comprehensive musical training, playing the piano.<ref name="Barmer" /> Matthiesen took her first guitar lessons at the age of 18,<ref name="Barmer" /> and after one year she studied with {{ill|Heinz Teuchert|de}} at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt.<ref name="Kurz" /> During her studies, she played in the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester.<ref name="Kronberg" />

Pepe Romero, who taught her for several years, was the formative influence on her playing.<ref name="Volkwein" /> In addition, she attended master classes with Manuel Barrueco, David Russell, Roland Dyens, Alvaro Pierri and Leo Brouwer, among others.<ref name="Wosnitzka 2021" />

=== Guitarist === Matthiesen worked as a soloist, and she also regularly performed with chamber music ensembles. From 1997 she was closely affiliated with Villa Musica in Mainz.<ref name="Volkwein" /> In 1996, she replaced Pepe Romero in a Los Romeros concert,<ref name="Heike Matthiesen 2012 n781">{{cite web | title=Mission Impossible: Meine Karriere Story | trans-title=Mission Impossible: My Career Story | website=Heike Matthiesen | date=10 December 2012 | url=https://heikematthiesen.com/mission-impossible-meine-karriere-story/ | language=de | access-date=30 December 2023}}</ref> and she recorded a CD with the Spanish Art Guitar Quartet in 2005.<ref name="kirstein o422" /><ref name="obsaitensprung.de e012">{{cite web | title=gitarrissimo | website=obsaitensprung.de | url=http://www.obsaitensprung.de/portrait.php5?id=115 | language=de | access-date=30 December 2023}}</ref> Matthiesen performed in many countries, including the US, Russia, Japan, China, all around western Europe, Iceland, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Equatorial Guinea.<ref name="Kronberg">{{cite web | title=Heike Matthiesen | website=Kronberg Academy | url=https://www.kronbergacademy.de/kuenstler/person/heike-matthiesen | language=de | access-date=29 December 2023}}</ref> She played at festivals and in guitar concert series, and was a juror in national and international competitions. Matthiesen was passionate about the music of women composers which she promoted.<ref name="Volkwein" /> She was from 2017 a board member of the Internationaler Arbeitskreis Frau und Musik ('' tr. "International Working Group Women and Music"''), running the ''Archiv Frau und Musik'' (Archive Woman & Music) of compositions by women composers,<ref name="Wosnitzka" /> and curated its guitar repertoire.<ref name="Volkwein" /> She commissioned works by women, and played compositions by women from many centuries.<ref name="Wosnitzka" /> She said in an interview:

{{quote|In our loud chaotic world there is a strong need for calmness and awareness of the presence (also for silence) and what else can bring that better to the people than the fragile sound of a guitar?<ref name="Aguzzi" />{{rp|149–150}}}}

Matthiesen represented a new generation of classical musician, communicative, open for new media and an avid ambassador for classical music on relevant social media platforms.<ref name="Volkwein" />

=== Personal life === Matthiesen lived in Frankfurt.<ref name="Wosnitzka 2021" /> In August 2019 she was diagnosed with melanoma on the skin of her neck, and underwent surgery at the ''Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt''.<ref name="Barmer" />

Matthiesen died of cancer on 22 December 2023, at the age of 59.<ref name="Volkwein" /><ref name="Wosnitzka" /><ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.schneppat-music.de/heike-matthiesen-nachruf/ | title=Heike Matthiesen – ein ganz persönlicher Nachruf | trans-title=Heike Matthiesen – a very personal obituary | publisher=Schneppat Music | date=February 2024 | access-date=2024-02-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title='Musik ist eine heilige Kunst...' - In Memoriam: Die Frankfurter Gitarristin Heike Matthiesen ist am 22. Dezember 2023 verstorben | trans-title='Music is a sacred art...' - In Memoriam: Frankfurt guitarist Heike Matthiesen died on 22 December 2023 | url=https://www.nmz.de/nmz-verbaende/deutscher-tonkuenstlerverband/musik-ist-eine-heilige-kunst | work=NMZ | author=Ute-Gabriela Schneppat | date=2024-02-01 | accessdate=2024-02-27}}</ref>

== Guitars == * Gioachino Giussani 1990 "Alsuhail "<ref name="Aguzzi" /><ref name="This is Classical Guitar 2013 e719">{{cite web |first=Bradford |last=Werner | title=Spotlight: Heike Matthiesen, guitarist | website=This is Classical Guitar | date=26 March 2013 | url=https://www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/spotlight-heike-matthiesen-guitarist/ | access-date=29 December 2023}}</ref> * Roy Fankhänel 2015 "RF160"<ref name="Aguzzi" /><ref name="Erzgebirge 2018 k353">{{cite web | title=Erzgebirger wirbt für "Das Handwerk" | trans-title= | website=Erzgebirge | date=20 March 2018 | url=https://www.erzgebirge-gedachtgemacht.de/news/erzgebirger-wirbt-fuer-das-handwerk | language=de | access-date=29 December 2023}}</ref>

== Recordings == * ''Suite de los espejos'' (Mirror Suite), Andrei Volkonsky, portrait, Wergo 1993<ref name="Volkonskij García Lorca Bobrowski Ansermet 1996 p. ">{{citation | last1=Volkonskij | first1=Andrej Michajlovič | last2=García Lorca | first2=Federico | last3=Bobrowski | first3=Johannes | last4=Ansermet | first4=Claudine | last5=Rostorf | first5=Sharon | last6=Neubauer | first6=Margit | last7=Ljubimov | first7=Aleksej Borisovič | last8=Ickstadt | first8=Alois | last9=Carewe | first9=John | last10=Alex | first10=Constantin | author11=Hessischer Rundfunk Figuralchor | author12=Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz | author13=Oper Frankfurt Orchester | title=Der 148. Psalm für drei Stimmen, Orgel und Pauke (1985) ; Musica stricta : Fantasia ricercata für Klavier (1957) ; Sérenade pour un insecte : für Orchester (1959) ; Suite de los espejos : Spiegel-Suite für Sopran und Kammerensemble (1960) ; Immobile : für Klavier und Orchester (1977) ; Les plaintes de Chtchaza : für Sopran, Englischhorn, Violine, Viola, Xylorimba, Tamburin, Vibraphon und Cembalo (1962) ; Was noch lebt : für Altstimme und Streichtrio, nach Gedichten von Johannes Bobrowski (1989) | trans-title= | publisher=Schott Wergo Music Media | publication-place=Mainz | year=1996 | oclc=1408572147 | language=mul | page=}}</ref> * ''Bolero'', with the Spanish Art Guitar Quartet, NCA 2005<ref name="Spanish Art Guitar Quartet Jäckle Feldmann Smith 2009 p. ">{{citation | author=Spanish Art Guitar Quartet | last2=Jäckle | first2=Klaus | last3=Feldmann | first3=Klaus | last4=Smith | first4=James F. | last5=Bizet | first5=Georges | last6=Saint-Saëns | first6=Camille | last7=Debussy | first7=Claude | last8=Ravel | first8=Maurice | title=Bolero | publisher=Naxos Digital Services/New Classical Adventure | publication-place=Hong Kong | year=2009 | oclc=704949493 | language=zxx | page=}}</ref><ref name="kirstein o422">{{cite web | title=Interview Heike Matthiesen | website=www.kirstein.de | url=https://www.kirstein.de/Interview-Heike-Matthiesen/ | language=de | access-date=30 December 2023}}</ref>

'''Solo:''' * ''Sol y luna'', music from Spain and South America, Tyrolis 1998<ref name="Wosnitzka 2021" /><ref name="Matthiesen 1998 p. ">{{citation | last=Matthiesen | first=Heike | title=Sol y luna | publisher=Tyrolis | publication-place=Mittenwald | year=1998 | oclc=1183683438 | language=de | page=}}</ref> * ''Tristemusette'', music by Roland Dyens, Tyrolis 2001<ref name="Wosnitzka 2021" /><ref name="Dyens Matthiesen 2001 p. ">{{citation | last1=Dyens | first1=Roland | last2=Matthiesen | first2=Heike | title=Heike Matthiesen plays compositions by Roland Dyens : tristemusette | publisher=Tyrolis Music | publication-place=[Eschen, Liechtenstein] | year=2001 | oclc=795831109 | language=zxx | page=}}</ref> * ''Serenade'', phantasies and variations on 19th century opera, Vienna2day, 2013<ref name="Wosnitzka 2021" /> * ''Guitar Ladies'', music by women composers from all around the world, Vienna2day, October 2016<ref name="Wosnitzka 2021" /><ref name="Matthiesen Pratten Anido Presti 2016 p. ">{{citation | last1=Matthiesen | first1=Heike | last2=Pratten | first2=Sidney | last3=Anido | first3=María Luisa | last4=Presti | first4=Ida | last5=Gubajdulina | first5=Sofija Asgatovna | last6=Bodorová | first6=Sylvie | last7=Kruisbrink | first7=Annette | last8=Stachak | first8=Tatiana | last9=Guzmán | first9=Carmen | last10=Linnemann | first10=Maria Catherina | title=Guitar ladies | publisher=vienna2day | publication-place=[Wien] | year=2016 | oclc=1158577601 | language=zxx | page=}}</ref> * ''Guitar Divas'' (2023)<ref name="Wosnitzka" /><ref name="swr.online 2023 s697">{{cite web |last=Selge |first=Albrecht | title=Heike Matthiesen: Guitar Divas | website=swr.online | date=16 May 2023 | url=https://www.swr.de/swr2/musik-klassik/heike-matthiesen-guitar-divas-100.html | language=de | access-date=29 December 2023}}</ref><ref name="Matthiesen Giuliani Guglielmi Emmerich Pratten 2023 p. ">{{citation | last1=Matthiesen | first1=Heike | last2=Giuliani Guglielmi | first2=Emilia | last3=Emmerich | first3=Anne | last4=Pratten | first4=Catharina Josepha | last5=Goñi | first5=María Dolores de | title=Guitar divas | publisher=Ars Produktion | year=2023 | oclc=1391999669 | language=zxx | page=}}</ref>

Her 2016 solo album ''Guitar Ladies'' features exclusively compositions by women, Sidney Pratten (1821–1895), María Luisa Anido, Ida Presti, Sofia Gubaidulina, Sylvie Bodorová, Annette Kruisbrink, Carmen Guzman (1925–2012), Tatiana Stachak (born 1973) and Maria Linnemann, with Linnemann's work dedicated to her. A reviewer summarised: {{quote|Guitar Ladies by Heike Matthiesen is a wonderful collection of repertoire by prominent and historical composers. The all-women conceptual base ties the album together and, along with the works by Maria Linnemann dedicated to Matthiesen, represents an important repertoire exploration as well as a personal touch and contribution from the performer. With expressive and colourful performances, the album radiates a mood of melodic beauty, movement, and spaciousness rarely found all in one place.<ref name="Werner" />}}

== References == <references>

<ref name="Aguzzi">{{cite book | last = Aguzzi | first = Andrea | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_Wr6CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA141 | chapter = Heike Matthiesen | title = Visionary Guitars Chatting with Guitarists | publisher = Lulu.com | date = 2016 | pages = 141–150 | isbn = 978-1-32-658693-5 }}</ref>

<ref name="Kurz">{{cite news | last = Kurz | first = Antonia | url = https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/speyer_artikel,-magie-entsteht-an-den-grenzen-der-komfortzone-_arid,975560.html | title = "Magie entsteht an den Grenzen der Komfortzone" | trans-title="Magic happens at the limits of the comfort zone" | newspaper = Rheinpfalz | date = 9 September 2017 | language = de | access-date = 29 December 2023 }}</ref>

<ref name="Volkwein">{{cite news | last = Volkwein | first = Barbara | url = https://www.nmz.de/menschen/gelebte-liebe-kammermusik-kommunikation-kollegialitaet-ein-nachruf-auf-heike-matthiesen | title = Gelebte Liebe: Kammermusik, Kommunikation, Kollegialität – Ein Nachruf auf Heike Matthiesen | trans-title=Lived Love: Chamber Music, Communication, Collegiality – An Obituary for Heike Matthiesen | newspaper = Neue Musikzeitung | date = 28 December 2023 | language=de | access-date = 28 December 2023 }}</ref>

<ref name="Werner">{{cite web | last = Werner | first = Bradford | url = http://www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/review-guitar-ladies-heike-matthiesen/ | title = Review: Guitar Ladies by Heike Matthiesen | website = This is Classical Guitar | date = December 2016 | access-date = 29 December 2023 }}</ref>

<ref name="Wosnitzka">{{cite web | last = Wosnitzka | first = Susanne | url = https://www.archiv-frau-musik.de/archives/heike-matthiesen-1964-2023-nachruf | title = Heike Matthiesen (1964–2023) / Nachruf | trans-title=Heike Matthiesen (1964–2023) / Obituary | website = Archiv Frau & Musik | date = 27 December 2023 | language = de | access-date = 29 December 2023 }}</ref>

<ref name="Wosnitzka 2021">{{cite web | last = Wosnitzka | first = Susanne | url = https://www.archiv-frau-musik.de/archives/heike-matthiesen-live-im-afm-guitar-ladies | title = Heike Matthiesen live im AFM / "Guitar Ladies" 30. Mai 2021 | website = Archiv Frau & Musik | date = 21 May 2021 | language = de | access-date = 29 December 2023 }}</ref>

<ref name="Barmer">{{cite magazine | url = https://www.barmer.de/resource/blob/1004446/0ba2eb9bc139e5d0d0677bdf6495db87/barmer-magazin-2020-nr-01-data.pdf | title = Lebensrezept Optimismus | trans-title = Life recipe optimism | magazine = Barmer-Magazin | date = January 2020 | pages = 28–29 | language = de | access-date = 25 December 2023 }}</ref>

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== Further reading == * {{cite web | title=Gitarristin Heike Matthiesen im Alter von 59 Jahren gestorben | trans-title=Guitarist Heike Matthiesen dies at the age of 59 | website=Pizzicato | date=29 December 2023 | url=https://www.pizzicato.lu/79747-2/ | language=de | access-date=31 December 2023}}

== External links == * {{official|https://heikematthiesen.com/en/home-2/}} * {{discogs artist}} * {{YouTube|u=guitarrina|Heike Matthiesen}}  * {{YouTube|hSU1H_ojLjg|Heike Matthiesen – Heitor Villa-Lobos Prelude No. 1}} * {{cite web | last = Aguzzi | first = Andrea | url = https://neuguitars.com/2016/12/30/interview-with-heike-matthiesen-dicember-2016-on-neuguitars-blog/ | archive-url = https://archive.today/20161230094404/https://neuguitars.com/2016/12/30/interview-with-heike-matthiesen-dicember-2016-on-neuguitars-blog/ | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 30 December 2016 | title = Interview with Heike Matthiesen | website = neuguitars.com | date = 30 December 2016 | ref = no}} * [https://www.archiv-frau-musik.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Repertoire-Liste-Gitarre-Heike-Matthiesen-Juli-2018.pdf Guitar repertoire Archiv Frau und Musik with assessments and comments by Heike Matthiesen] {{in lang|de}}

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