Matthias Goerne

Matthias Goerne (born 1967 in Weimar ) is a German song, concert and opera singer (baritone ).

Goerne was born the son of the playwright, later to Dresden director Dieter Görne. He studied with Hans -Joachim Beyer at the Academy of Music " Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy " in Leipzig and with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Goerne is regarded as a Lieder singer of the first rank and is a regular guest at the prestigious festivals and concert halls in the world such as the Wigmore Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York.

He has worked with famous orchestras (including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony ) and with renowned conductors ( Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph Eschenbach, Christoph von Dohnányi, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Ingo Metzmacher, Seiji Ozawa, Esa -Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin ).

Since his opera debut at the Salzburg Festival ( 1997), he is the great opera stages of the world as a guest, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, at the Zurich Opera House, at the Dresden Semper Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The spectrum of its roles ranging from Papageno and Wolfram to the title role in Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck and Aribert Reimann Lear.

Goerne is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

From 2001-2004 he taught as an honorary professor of song interpretation at the Robert -Schumann -Hochschule in Dusseldorf.

Goerne is exclusively for Decca / Universal under contract. Numerous CD recordings document his artistic work, including Schubert's Winterreise with Alfred Brendel. For the Harmonia Mundi label Goerne took between 2008 and 2010 a series of eleven CDs of Schubert songs on ( Goerne Schubert Edition).

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