Clifton Matthews
Phone: (336)631-1535
Email: matthewsc@ncarts.edu

A member of the artist-faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts, Clifton Matthews holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Juilliard School. He has been the recipient of two Fulbright awards for study in Munich, Germany. In addition to his faculty position at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Mr. Matthews has taught for many years on the summer faculty of the Tibor Varga Festival in Sion, Switzerland. He presents master classes around the country, recently at the Boston Conservatory, the Levine School in Washington, D.C., and the Settlement Music School of Philadelphia. He has also given master classes in France at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau and at the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence. Through the support of the International Music Program of NCSA, many of Mr. Matthews' NCSA students have been able to participate in these European venues, and the student body of the Winston-Salem campus has been enriched by the many foreign students who have followed him from European classes to enroll at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Mr. Matthews has also taught at Quebec's "Musica Estiva", and has given master classes as well in Durham and Bristol in the United Kingdom, and in Finland. He performs frequently in recitals in the United States and Europe, commanding a wide repertoire including the premieres of several works by contemporary American composers, the complete Well-Tempered Clavier of J.S. Bach, and the complete Beethoven Sonatas for piano and violin.