Matthias Winckhler

Born in 1990 in Munich, bass-baritone Matthias Winckhler began his musical training at the Bavarian Vocal Academy, and went on to study voice at Salzburg Mozarteum University in the class of Andreas Macco, as well as in the Lied interpretation class of Wolfgang Holzmair. He also actively participated in masterclasses imparted by Matthias Goerne, Markus Hinterhäuser, Graham Johnson, Christa Ludwig, Malcolm Martineau, Bejun Mehta, Michele Pertusi, Rudolf Piernay, Peter Schreier, Bo Skovhus, and Breda Zakotnik. He has been a bursary of the Walter & Charlotte Hamel Foundation and the Walter Kaminsky Foundation. In 2017, he was awarded the Trude Eipperle Rieger Advancement Prize. In 2014, at the Salzburg International Mozart Competition, he won First Prize, as well as the Mozarteum Foundat