Matthias Goerne

is a frequent guest with leading orchestras and at renowned festivals and concert halls. Among his musical partners are conductors of the first rank such as Claudio Abbado(†), Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons (†), Neeme and Paavo Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Franz Welser-Möst. The German baritone has appeared on the world’s principal opera stages, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Teatro Real in Madrid, Paris National Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, and the Vienna State Opera.
Goerne’s artistry has been documented on numerous recordings, many of which have received rave reviews and prestigious awards, including five »Grammy« nominations, an »ICMA award«, a »Gramophone Award«, the »BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award 2017«, »Diapason d’Or arte«, and the 2017 »ECHO Klassik« in the category »Singer of the Year«.

In the past two years, he has released three albums with Deutsche Grammophon: Beethoven Songs with Jan Lisiecki; a collection of Wagner, Strauss and Pfitzner Songs with Seong-Jin Cho, and his new album of Schumann and Brahms Songs with Daniil Trifonov, which was just awarded »Vocal Recording of the Year« by Limelight. He is featured as Wotan on the Naxos release of the entire Ring Cycle with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and conductor Jaap van Zweden. His latest album »Schubert Revisited« was released in January 2023 by Deutsche Grammophon, which brings the composer’s songs to life in arrangements for voice and orchestra. In 2001, he was appointed an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

A native of Weimar, Goerne studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer in Leipzig, and later with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Highlights of the past season include concerts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra as well as the Orchestre National de France conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as well as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, and a tour of Asia with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi.
In the 23/24 season, Goerne will make his debut as Boris Godunov in Toulouse and in Paris and perform a series of recitals with Evgeny Kissin in Europe and the United States. He is premiering Jörg Widmann’s »Schumannliebe« at Porto’s Casa da Música, Cologne Philharmonie and Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. Furthermore, he will appear with the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest and Sir Antonio Pappano as well as the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and perform Britten’s »War Requiem« on tour throughout Germany with the SWR Symphonieorchester.