Matthias Winckhler
Born in Munich, the baritone Matthias Winckhler studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Andreas Macco, as well as in Wolfgang Holzmair’s song class. He also participated in masterclasses with Matthias Goerne, Markus Hinterhäuser, Graham Johnson, Christa Ludwig, Malcolm Martineau, Bejun Mehta, Michele Pertusi, Rudolf Piernay, Peter Schreier, Bo Skovhus and Breda Zakotnik.
Concert engagements have taken him to numerous prestigious festivals, such as the Salzburg Festival, Kissinger Sommer, Bachfest Leipzig, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Thüringer Bachwochen and the Mozartwoche in Salzburg. He has worked with conductors including Hansjörg Albrecht, Howard Arman, Peter Dijkstra, Hans Graf, Matthew Halls, Pablo Heras-Casado, René Jacobs, Risto Joost, Andrew Manze, Riccardo Minasi, Jordi Savall, Masaaki Suzuki and Robin Ticciati, and performed in concert with ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bach Collegium Japan, Camerata Salzburg, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, the Bavarian Radio Choir, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Munich Bach Choir, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic.
From 2015 to 2018 he was a member of the ensemble at the State Opera in Hanover, where his roles included Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Albert (Werther), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore) and Tom (The English Cat). Other operatic highlights include Don Fernando (Fidelio) with the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini, with performances at the Theater an der Wien and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and Frank in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.
Matthias Winckhler received first prize and the special prize from the Mozarteum Foundation at the Salzburg International Mozart Competition. He was also a prizewinner at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig, the National Singing Competition in Berlin and the International Schubert Competition in Dortmund.