ABOUT

Recorder player and harpsichordist Mathis Wolfer performs in Germany and abroad and has appeared with various ensembles at Bachfest Leipzig, Grafenegg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Musikfest Bremen, Musikfestspiele Potsdam, Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, Oude Muziek Fringe Festival and in the Pierre Boulez Saal. He has performed as a soloist with ensembles such as the Capricornus Consort Basel, La Risonanza Barockorchester and the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra.

 

He has won prizes at national and international competitions, including the La Risonanza EMSA Award and first prizes at the Open Recorder Days Amsterdam as well as the second prize at the prestigious "MOECK/SRP solo recorder competition" and prizes at the van Wassenaer Competition Utrecht and from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. After reaching the finals at „Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2025“ as the only recorder player, he was awarded a scholarship, the concert promotion programme and the special prize for early music.

 

He is also a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and has received scholarships from the Kulturakademie Baden-Württemberg.

 

Enthusiastic about both early and contemporary music, he regularly performs with various chamber music ensembles, such as ensemble feuervogel and Apollos Cabinet. He is equally passionate about historically informed performance practice as about collaborating with composers and premiering contemporary works.

 

Mathis Wolfer is currently studying harpsichord at the Freiburg University of Music with Prof. Jean-Christophe Dijoux. Before he was taught by Michael Behringer, Prof. Stefan Temmingh and Prof. Agnes Dorwarth. He received further musical inspiration in courses with Alfredo Bernadini, Francesco Corti, Michael Form, Dan Laurin, Dorothee Oberlinger, Hille Perl, Antonio Politano, Maurice Steger, Peter van Heyghen and others.