Matthias Weichert

Matthias Weichert was from 1965 to 1974 a member of the St. Thomas’s Boys Choir Leipzig. After his graduation from high school, he began his studies at the University of Music “Carl Maria von Weber” in Dresden. He graduated with State Exam as an opera singer and voice teacher. Afterwards, Matthias Weichert was offered engagements with the “Landesbühnen Sachsen”, the “Staatsoper Berlin”, “Oper Leipzig” and the “Komische Oper Berlin”. He won the Robert Schumann Award, the Hugo Wolf Award, and received a scholarship in 1988 from the Bayreuth Festival. Matthias Weichert toured Japan in 1996 and 2000 with the St. Thomas’s Boys Choir Leipzig and the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and performed on tour in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France and in the United States. He has appeared in concerts and oratorios with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, the Dresdner Kreuzchor and the Staatskapelle Dresden. In addition to recording CDs Matthias Weichert has made various recordings for radio and television. Matthias Weichert performs as a freelance concert and oratorio singer since August 2000. In January of 2002 he was on tour in Israel with the “Israel Northern Symphony Haifa”. Matthias Weichert was appointed as professor at the University of Music “Carl Maria von Weber” Dresden in June 2002 and at the College for Church Music Dresden.