About Matthias Lingenfelder
Matthias Lingenfelder had his first violin lesson at the age of seven. After training with Klaus Eichholz, Max Rostal and Gerard Poulet, he founded the Auryn Quartet in 1981, which became one of the leading string quartets. In 2022, after 41 years of performing together in the same line-up, the Auryn Quartet decided to bring things to a close. Mattias Lingenfelder went on to pursue many further projects, as a soloist and in various chamber-music ensembles. He has held a professorship for chamber music at the College of Music in Detmold since 2003.
