Vita

Matthias Koziorowski hails from Essen, where he studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts under Prof. KS Wolfgang Millgramm. He further complemented his musical education by attending master classes with Helen Donath, Janet Williams, Olaf Bär, Anja Harteros, and Andreas Homoki. He is currently under the tutelage of Prof. Thomas Heyer.

After stints as a permanent ensemble member at the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, and the Halle Opera, he was engaged at the Graz Opera from 2021 to 2024. The young tenor will now work freelance and this season will sing, among other roles, the title role in Janáček’s “Diary of One Who Disappeared” at the Rome Opera, as well as Drum Major (Wozzeck) and Hoffmann in Graz. Concerts with Verdi’s Requiem in Cologne and Dortmund are also on the agenda, as well as Elias in Heidelberg and Strasbourg. In the 2024/25 season, he sang the title role in Kurt Weill’s “The Protagonist” at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, among others. Other engagements that season included the role of Prince Pao in Zemlinsky’s “The Chalk Circle” at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, as well as Jim in “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, and Paul in Franz Lehár’s “The Stargazer” at the Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl. Future role debuts as Florestan and Parsifal are planned.

Matthias Koziorowski has sung as a guest at the Aalto Theater in Essen, the Staatstheater Mainz, the Teatro Regio in Parma, the operas in Dortmund, Wuppertal, and Bonn, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Staatsoperette Dresden, and the theaters in Kiel, Heidelberg, Lübeck, Coburg, Bremen, and Hagen. Numerous concert engagements have taken him to the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Auditorio Nacional di Madrid, the Graz Music Association, the Cologne and Essen Philharmonic Halls, the Berlin Cathedral, the Düsseldorf Tonhalle, as well as the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and the Leipzig Gewandhaus.

His wide-ranging stage repertoire includes roles such as Max (Der Freischütz), Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), Erik (The Flying Dutchman), Alfredo (La Traviata), Hans (The Bartered Bride), Prince (Rusalka), Dimitri (Boris Godunov), Jim (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), and Stewa (Yenufa), as well as Eisenstein (The Bat), Candide, and Danilo (The Merry Widow). His concert repertoire includes the tenor roles in Britten’s War Requiem, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Song of the Earth, and Verdi’s Requiem.