MATTHIAS DAEHLING – COUNTER TENOR

Matthias Daehling, alto recipient of the 2024 Salvat Beca Bach, graduated with distinction
from the Royal College of Music in 2023, where he studied with Sally Burgess.

Recent performances include a new production of Monteverdi’s „L’Orfeo” in Winterthur
with the lautten compagney Berlin. He has also performed at venues like the Laeiszhalle
Hamburg, and presented Bach cantatas at the Palau de la Música Catalana and at the
Bachfest Leipzig.

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.

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, Masaaki Suzuki 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, Ian Partridge, Lynne Dawson, and
Philippe Jaroussky.