Matias Oberlin was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. He trained in his home city and, with the support of the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation, at the School of the Hamburg Ballet. He joined the company in 2014 and was promoted to Soloist in 2018 and Principal in 2023.
John Neumeier created solos for him in Beethoven Project I, Ghost Light and Epilogue. In Neumeier’s ballets he has danced, among other roles, Drosselmeier and Günther in The Nutcracker, Gaston Rieux in The Lady of the Camellias, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The King in Christmas Oratorio I–VI, Alexei Karenin in Anna Karenina, Diaghilev in Nijinsky, Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and solos in Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, Préludes CV and St Matthew Passion. He also appeared in Balanchine’s double-bill Liebeslieder Walzer / Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, van Manen’s Variations for Two Couples, Justin Peck’s The Times Are Racing and William Forsythe’s Blake Works V (The Barre Project).
In 2019, Matias Oberlin danced the winning choreography by Kristian Lever at the Erik Bruhn Prize and in the same year won the Dr Wilhelm Oberdörffer Prize.
