Matthias Goerne has received worldwide praise for his warm, fluid baritone and his profound interpretations. Highly respected as a Lieder singer, he is a frequent guest at renowned festivals and prestigious venues like the New York Carnegie Hall and London Wigmore Hall. Famous pianists such as Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Leif Ove Andsnes, Alfred Brendel, Christoph Eschenbach and Elisabeth Leonskaja are among his musical partners.

Matthias Goerne is equally acclaimed on the concert stage where he appears with the world's foremost orchestras and conductors at the leading venues and festivals. Highlights of the 2006/07 season included concerts with the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Dresden Staatskapelle, and the Philharmonia Orchestra London, among many others.

Also sought-after as an opera performer, Matthias Goerne has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Teatro Real in Madrid, Dresden Semperoper, at the Salzburg Festival and Saito Kinen Festival in Japan. His carefully chosen roles range from Papageno and Wolfram to the title roles in Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Aribert Reimann's Lear. In the 2006/07 season he was heard at the Zurich Opera (Sebastiano in Tiefland) and at Berlin's Deutsche Oper (Kurwenal in Tristan and Isolde).

Matthias Goerne has an exclusive contract with Decca for solo recordings many of which received prestigious awards. His latest recordings include Schubert's Winterreise and Schwanengesang with Alfred Brendel as well as Zemlinsky's Lyrische Symphonie with the Orchestre de Paris.

In 2001 Mr. Goerne was appointed as Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London. From 2001 through 2005 he held a teaching position as a Professor of Lieder Interpretation at the Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer in Leipzig, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.