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3 unusual facts about Denis Matthews


Denis Matthews

In the few years before his death, he and his third wife, Beryl Chempin, taught at the Birmingham School of Music.

Resuming his professional career after the war, he toured extensively as a concert pianist and formed successful partnerships with the Griller Quartet and the Amadeus Quartet.

Watson Forbes

He toured the UK in a piano quintet which included Denis Matthews, Frederick Grinke and James Whitehead.


Sarah Beth Briggs

She studied in Newcastle, York and Birmingham with Denis Matthews, in Switzerland with one of Claudio Arrau's most renowned students, Edith Fischer and, through a Hindemith Foundation chamber scholarship, with Bruno Giuranna.


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