Matthias Goerne

Born in Weimar, Matthias Goerne studied singing with Hans-Joachim Beyer in Leipzig, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He performs regularly at renowned festivals and on major concert stages including Carnegie Hall in New York and Wigmore Hall in London. Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Leif-Ove Andsnes, Alfred Brendel, Christoph Eschenbach and Elisabeth Leonskaja are his regular accompanists. Since his opera debut at the Salzburg Festival in 1997 as Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) under the direction of Christoph von Dohnányi, he has been host to major international lyrical stages, such as the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Opernhaus in Zurich, the Semper Oper in Dresden, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan. The range of his carefully chosen roles ranges from Papageno and Wolfram to the title roles of Wozzeck by Alban Berg and Lear by Aribert Reimann. Matthias Goerne collaborated with the most renowned orchestras and conductors: Chicago Symphony, The Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony, the Orchester national de France, the Orchester de Paris, the London Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra , the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dresden Staatskapelle. Numerous recordings, some of which have won several awards, are available - notably songs by Schubert from Harmonia Mundi (Goerne / Schubert-Edition) or Universal. From 2001 to 2004 he taught vocal interpretation at the Robert Schumann University of Düsseldorf as an honorary professor. He gave a recital dedicated to Schubert at the OnR in 2011.