German countertenor Matthias Daehling is a Samling Artist and alto recipient of the 2024 Salvat Beca Bach. He graduated with distinction from the Royal College of Music in 2023, where he studied with Sally Burgess.
Prior to this, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg under Mark Tucker, receiving multiple scholarships and awards throughout his academic career.
Recent performances include a new production of Monteverdi's „L'Orfeo" in Winterthur with the lautten compagney Berlin, conducted by Wolfgang Katschner. He has also performed at venues like the Laeiszhalle Hamburg with the Hamburger Knabenchor and Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg under Luiz de Godoy, and presented Bach cantatas at the Palau de la Música Catalana with the Bach Collegium Barcelona, directed by Pau Jorquera.
Matthias is committed to expanding the countertenor repertoire. He was a participant in the 2022/23 'Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange' and has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London and the Salle Cortot in Paris. He is featured on several CDs, notably a first recording of rediscovered Telemann cantatas with the Neumeyer Consort under Felix Koch's direction.
As an ensemble singer, Matthias regularly performs with groups like the Monteverdi Choir London and Balthasar Neumann Choir, under conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Thomas Hengelbrock.
In 2021 he gave his stage debut in a new production of Shostakovich’s “The Nose” at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich under baton of Vladimir Jurowski. He returned to the Bayerische Staatsoper in May 2024 for a revival of the opera.
Since 2016, Matthias has studied with Ulla Groenewold in Hamburg and has taken masterclasses with Michael Chance, Daniel Taylor, Felicity Lott, François Le Roux, Ian Partridge, Lynne Dawson, and Philippe Jaroussky.
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