My projects:
Private Lessons
Cadenza Academy of San Antonio
Teaching Blog: ZerweckViolin.com
SA Private Teacher Directory
I also perform frequently with Camerata San Antonio
Private Lessons
Cadenza Academy of San Antonio
Teaching Blog: ZerweckViolin.com
SA Private Teacher Directory
I also perform frequently with Camerata San Antonio
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http://thediek.com/upontheawfultree
Here me play on an Independent Film Soundtrack (link above) I had the opportunity to record the solo violin parts for Matt Diekman's short film, Upon the Awful Tree, with original score by Matt Dunne. One of the main characters, the Devil, is represented by virtuosic, gypsy-style violin playing. There are some adult themes, please use discretion. |
Camerata SA: Martinu from Classical Spotlight on Vimeo.
Recent Reviews and Articles:
At the Alamo.
January 12th, 2016
"...Mr. Zerweck’s magnificent portamenti on strategic notes were by themselves worth the price of admission. "
September 17th, 2015
"Haydn’s “Fifths” Quartet (Op. 76, No. 2) and the third of Beethoven’s middle-period “Razumovsky” Quartets were familiar territory, but the view was made fresh by first violin Matthew Zerweck’s consistently trenchant phrasing — musical, of course, but also rhetorical, as though he were an actor speaking great texts, naturally and without evident cunning. Never before have I heard the first-violin part in a Haydn quartet played with such throughgoing specificity of meaning."
April 25th, 2015 Incidentlight.com
"Once again violinist Matthew Zerweck showed remarkable intensity and, in his opening solo in the Ginastera third movement, poised eloquence."
November 25th, 2014 Incidentlight.com
"Mr. Zerweck, first violin in the Szymanowski and only violin in the Penderecki, once again proved himself to be a musician of the first rank — secure, intelligent, vital. Friends, seize every opportunity to hear this fellow play while you still can; there’s no way he’ll not have a globe-hopping career if he wants it"
October 8th 2014 Incidentlight.com
"The Shostakovich drew a particularly brilliant performance from Matthew Zerweck, who played first violin in both works. His rhythmic acuity, his care with dynamics and his utterly convincing details of phrasing and articulation elevated this to one
of the greatest chamber-music performances in my experience."
June 3rd, 2014 - Incidentlight.com
"In the Mendelssohn, which assigns the first violin the clear leadership role, Mr. Zerweck
surpassed his usual high standard of assertiveness, accuracy and rhythmic acuity. This wasn’t just remarkably able musicianship; it was unrestrained, compelling magic. "
September 30th 2012 - Incidentlight.com
"[Zerweck] proved once again to be one of San Antonio’s brightest young talents, a musician great verve, intensity and depth."
March 25, 2011 - Incidentlight.com
"The performance was equal to an international standard all around. Mr. Garza’s brilliance and Mr. Zerweck’s muscular playing were especially winning." .
Jan 20th, 2011 Jack Fishman Interview
An interview before my solo debut in San Antonio.
Jan 23rd, 2011- Jack Fishman
"This afternoon violinist Matthew Zerweck demonstrated a side of his musical personality that I did not know about until today.
Certainly not a side you’ll hear often at the San Antonio Symphony."
Feb 9th, 2010 - Incidentlight.com
"The performance, by violinist Matthew Zerweck and violist Lauren Magnus, was polished, taut and energetic.
Both players were fully engaged with the music, with each other and with the audience. "
October 18, 2010 - Incidentlight.com
"The excellent musicians were violinists Matthew Zerweck (who impressed with his astonishingly accurate pitch in the instrument’s
highest register in the mournful “Canto de Velorio” movement) and Sayaka Okada, violist Emily Freudigman and cellist Kenneth Freudigman."
October 27, 2010 Incidentlight.com
"It was given a terrific performance -- fearless, energetic, vividly colored -- by violinist Matthew Zerweck
(one of the brightest gems on the San Antonio Symphony’s roster) and [Warren] Jones."
"...Mr. Zerweck’s magnificent portamenti on strategic notes were by themselves worth the price of admission. "
September 17th, 2015
"Haydn’s “Fifths” Quartet (Op. 76, No. 2) and the third of Beethoven’s middle-period “Razumovsky” Quartets were familiar territory, but the view was made fresh by first violin Matthew Zerweck’s consistently trenchant phrasing — musical, of course, but also rhetorical, as though he were an actor speaking great texts, naturally and without evident cunning. Never before have I heard the first-violin part in a Haydn quartet played with such throughgoing specificity of meaning."
April 25th, 2015 Incidentlight.com
"Once again violinist Matthew Zerweck showed remarkable intensity and, in his opening solo in the Ginastera third movement, poised eloquence."
November 25th, 2014 Incidentlight.com
"Mr. Zerweck, first violin in the Szymanowski and only violin in the Penderecki, once again proved himself to be a musician of the first rank — secure, intelligent, vital. Friends, seize every opportunity to hear this fellow play while you still can; there’s no way he’ll not have a globe-hopping career if he wants it"
October 8th 2014 Incidentlight.com
"The Shostakovich drew a particularly brilliant performance from Matthew Zerweck, who played first violin in both works. His rhythmic acuity, his care with dynamics and his utterly convincing details of phrasing and articulation elevated this to one
of the greatest chamber-music performances in my experience."
June 3rd, 2014 - Incidentlight.com
"In the Mendelssohn, which assigns the first violin the clear leadership role, Mr. Zerweck
surpassed his usual high standard of assertiveness, accuracy and rhythmic acuity. This wasn’t just remarkably able musicianship; it was unrestrained, compelling magic. "
September 30th 2012 - Incidentlight.com
"[Zerweck] proved once again to be one of San Antonio’s brightest young talents, a musician great verve, intensity and depth."
March 25, 2011 - Incidentlight.com
"The performance was equal to an international standard all around. Mr. Garza’s brilliance and Mr. Zerweck’s muscular playing were especially winning." .
Jan 20th, 2011 Jack Fishman Interview
An interview before my solo debut in San Antonio.
Jan 23rd, 2011- Jack Fishman
"This afternoon violinist Matthew Zerweck demonstrated a side of his musical personality that I did not know about until today.
Certainly not a side you’ll hear often at the San Antonio Symphony."
Feb 9th, 2010 - Incidentlight.com
"The performance, by violinist Matthew Zerweck and violist Lauren Magnus, was polished, taut and energetic.
Both players were fully engaged with the music, with each other and with the audience. "
October 18, 2010 - Incidentlight.com
"The excellent musicians were violinists Matthew Zerweck (who impressed with his astonishingly accurate pitch in the instrument’s
highest register in the mournful “Canto de Velorio” movement) and Sayaka Okada, violist Emily Freudigman and cellist Kenneth Freudigman."
October 27, 2010 Incidentlight.com
"It was given a terrific performance -- fearless, energetic, vividly colored -- by violinist Matthew Zerweck
(one of the brightest gems on the San Antonio Symphony’s roster) and [Warren] Jones."
