Matthias Vieweg Matthias Vieweg

Born in Germany, Matthias Vieweg began playing the piano at the age of five. He studied music in Wernigerode, where he became a member of the local radio youth choir and completed his secondary schooling. He later moved to Berlin to work and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin—voice with Günther Leib, piano with Renate Schorler, and piano accompaniment with Walter Olnertz—completing his studies in 1999.

Vieweg has won prizes at numerous competitions: in 1997 he took First Prize at the competition of the Richard Strauss Society in Munich, and in 1998 he received the Bach Prize at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig, along with a special prize from MDR.

Vieweg has appeared as a guest artist at venues including the Staatsoper Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, and the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, and at international festivals including the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the Handel Festival in Halle, the Dresden Music Festival, and the Bachfest Leipzig. He has also worked with conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Kent Nagano, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Günter Neuhold, René Jacobs, Philippe Pierlot, and Pierre Hantaï.