Dr. Matt Lammers

Co-Founder and Co-Director
matt.lammers@opus1chambermusic.org

Violinist Matt Lammers is a member of the American Prize-winning Axiom Quartet and a Lecturer of Violin and Chamber Music at Rice University. In addition to coaching chamber music at the Shepherd School, he is a Founder and Director of the Opus 1 Chamber Music School and Preparatory Program.

Now in its eleventh year and as Texas Touring Artists, the Axiom Quartet have given critically acclaimed performances and premieres across the U.S. and abroad. Their concert series in Houston attracts a wide variety of audiences, known for inventive programs that view traditional, undiscovered, and new quartet repertoire through a lens of unexplored storytelling. Most recently they performed the complete Shostakovich Quartets contextualized by contemporaneous works. Matt is also a Core Member of the Grammy-nominated and National Endowment for the Arts recipient Kinetic Ensemble, recognized as one of the nation’s most adventurous conductor-less chamber orchestras. He has performed and taught chamber music alongside members of the Miro, Concord, St. Lawrence, Cavani, Aizuri, and Carpe Diem Quartets and appears yearly at the Snake River, Northwoods, and University of Tennessee chamber music festivals.

On historical instruments, Matt appears in recital with harpsichordists Malcolm Matthews and Wolfgang Rubsam. He has published solo violin transcriptions of Lute Sonatas by Sylvius Leopold Weiss, as well as J.S. Bach’s D-minor Toccata and Fugue, proposing that it was composed for solo string instrument. Matt also explores the effects of acoustical construction on the characteristics of violins with research partner and luthier Keith Hill.

Matt holds degrees from Vanderbilt University and Rice University, where he earned his DMA as the Itzhak Perlman Fellow. His primary teachers include Paul Kantor, Carolyn Huebl, and Christian Teal.