Matthias Goerne

Matthias Goerne established an effective career being a baritone in Germany in the first ’90s and has expanded it to main performances in other Europe and on recordings. His operatic knowledge started early, as an associate of the town Opera in Weimar. His shows are significant for the heat of his tone of voice as well as the depth of his interpretations. He started professional-level voice trained in 1985 with Hans Beyer in Leipzig, after that continuing his research with both Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. His acquiring second reward in the Robert Schumann Competition of 1989, and 1st awards in the Lindberg Salomon and Hugo Wolf contests resulted in his being asked to sing in the Bach St. Matthew Enthusiasm in Leipzig in 1990 with conductor Kurt Masur. Additional early appearances had been using the NDR Radio Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, as well as the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Fischer-Dieskau suggested him for the Hindemith Requiem for all those We Like under Wolfgang Sawallisch. He has turned into a significant Mahler interpreter, performing Des Knaben Wunderhorn using the Berlin RSO under Vladimir Ashkenazy so that as a last-minute alternative to Fischer-Dieskau in Kindertotenlieder. Another significant component of his concert repertory may be the Brahms German Requiem, where he debuted, also on brief see, with Claus Peter Flor performing in Zurich. One of is own first operatic successes emerged in 1992, when he sang the name function in Hans Werner Henze’s The Prince of Homburg in a fresh creation at Cologne. His Berlin Deutsche Oper debut is at a far more traditional function for a baritone, Marcello in Puccini’s La bohème. Because the 1993-1994 period he is a person in the Dresden Condition Opera. In 2002, he debuted at Covent Backyard as Wozzeck. His initial London appearance was at Wigmore Hall in 1994. He was asked back again to that place for the starting concert from the 1995-1996 period, and five times afterwards sang another single recital there, followed by Graham Johnson, which received rave testimonials. Since that time, he has elevated his activities being a singer from the German lieder repertory throughout European countries, usually followed by pianist Eric Schneider. He often broadcasts on German radio, and provides documented for the Hänssler, Berlin Classics, and Decca (London) brands, appearing in the last mentioned in the key “Entartete Musik” series. He offers participated in three quantities from the Hyperion group of the entire Schubert songs, like the disc specialized in Der Winterreise. His skill in lieder repertoire resulted in his visit as teacher of lied interpretation in the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf in 1991, where he offered until 1995. In 2008 he started documenting an 11-disk series, The Goerne/Schubert Release, for Harmonia Mundi.