ABOUT

Recorder player and harpsichordist Mathis Wolfer performs in Germany and abroad and has appeared with various ensembles at 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 2021 and first prizes at the Open Recorder Days Amsterdam 2019 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.

 

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 plays with various chamber music ensembles. The debut CD of his ensemble feuervogel will be released in January 2024 by Coviello Classics.

 

Mathis Wolfer is currently studying recorder and harpsichord at the Freiburg University of Music with Prof. Stefan Temmingh, Prof. Jean-Christophe Dijoux and Michael Behringer. 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.