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Matthias Helm (Baritone)

Born: Austria

The Austrian baritone, Matthias Helm, studied solo singing with Rotraud Hansmann and has completed Lied and oratorio with Robert Holl at the Universität für Musik und darst. Kunst Wien (Class of 2002). In addition, he attended master-classes with Wolfgang Holzmair, Rudolf Piernay, Hartmut Höll and Rudolf Janssen. He was awarded the first prize of the European Music Prize for Youth 2000. In the same year he won the Petyrek-Lang-Liedwettbewerb and achieved 2nd prize at the Gradus ad Parnassum-championship in 1999.

As a concert singer, the young baritone has been reconized for his performance of great oratorios and passions of J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel, Felix Mendelssohn or C. Orff, F. Martin and Paul Hindemith. He has co-operated with orchestras and ensembles such as L'Orfeo Barockorchester (Director: Michi Gaigg), Karlsruher Barockorchester, Wiener Akademie or Capella Leopoldina. One of the singer’s favourite specialities is song cycle, especially by Schubert and Robert Schumann, and with that he has become a welcome guest of different festivals and concert houses like Styriarte, Haydn-Festspiele Eisenstadt, Konzerthaus Wien, Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Kammeroper, Konzerthaus St. Pölten, Teatro Monumental Madrid, Philharmonie Luxemburg, etc.

His rich variety of repertoire contains works from the Renaissance as well as music of the 21st century. As a result, he’s performed convincingly manifold characters from the works of H. Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann or W.A. Mozart and in operettas of E. Kalman or Strauß to the more contemporary compositions of J. Weir or E.L. Leitner. On his tours Matthias Helm has travelled throughout Europe, South Korea and Singapore. Hae currently lives in Wels, Upper Austria. In 2010 he married Eva Helm.

Sources:
Matthias Haelm Website & profile on Facebook
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (August 2015)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Péter Barczi

Bass

[VV-1] (2020, Video): BWV 248/1-3

Rudolf Lutz

Bass

DVD/CD: BWV 46 [2016], BWV 95, BWV 119, BWV 79 [2017]
DVD/CD (2018):
BWV 68
DVD/CD (2019):
BWV 248/5, BWV 145, BWV 102
BSSG [D15-5] (2021, Video): BWV 37
BSSG [D16-2] (2022, Video): BWV 39
BSSG [D16-10] (2022, Video): BWV 235
BSSG [D16-11] (2022, Video): BWV 236
BSSG [D17-5] (2023, Video): BWV 74
BSSG [D17-12] (2023, Video): BWV 106
[VV-1] (2022, Video): BWV 245 [Pilate & Arias]

Links to other Sites

Matthias Helm - Bariton (Official Website) [mostly German]
Matthias Helm on Facebook
Matthias Helm - Bass (J.S. Bach Stiftung) [German]


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