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Matthias Rexroth was born in Nürnberg. He first studied Oboe. After numerous engagements as an oboist, including appearances as soloist in concertos and chamber music, he began studying voice. In 1998 he graduated the Musikhoch-schule Karlsruhe, where he studied with K.-D. Kern, M. Venuti and D. Litaker.

At the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis he studied with Richard Levitt and Anthony Rooley. Since 1999 he studies with Eytan Pessen from the Stuttgart State Opera.


1999 opera debut at the Stuttgart State Opera with Purcell's King Arthur, followed by Violetta Dinescu's 35. Mai, Donizetti's Viva la Mamma as well as Legrenzi's La  divisione del mondo under Thomas Hengelbrock at the Schwetzinger Festspiele and the Tage Alter Musik in Innsbruck. Under Peter Eötvös he sang the Alto role in Ligeti's Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures (which were recorded in the Deutschland Radio Berlin and the Südwest Rundfunk).

Since 1997 he appears regularly in the Rossini-Festival in Bad Wildbad, with Rossini's Messa di Milano, a recital of Orfeo-Arias and the title role of Tancredi. In the Bach-year 2000 he sang in the worldwide broadcasted and televised B minor Mass with the
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Magnificat with Concerto Köln,  St Markus Passion in Karlsruhe, St John Passion at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Christmas Oratorio in Wiesbaden and St Matthew Passion at the Festspiele Ludwigsburg where he also appeared in Orff's Carmina Burana.

He won the First Prize at the 19th International Belvedere Competition in Vienna and eight other special Prizes, as well as the First Prize at the 37th International Francesco-Vinas-Competition in Barcelona in addition to the special Prize for Best Countertenor. Other awards and stipends are from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes', the Richard Wagner Society, the Franz-Grothe foundation, the Art allience of Baden-Württemberg as well as the cultur-prize from the city of Coburg.

 
Upcoming engagements Jommellis Fetonte with Frieder Bernius, Handel's Giulio Cesare in Saarbrücken, Handel's Jephta at the Norwegian State Opera, Dettingen Te Deum as CD-Production with the Hessische Rundfunk, Handel-Arias at the Philharmonie Cologne, The Messiah and Bach's St. Matthew-Passion with the Bamberg Symphony, various recitals at the festivals of Rheingau, Schleswig-Holstein, Innsbruck and in the Fränkische Sommer Nürnberg, radio broadcasts and live concerts at the Bayerische Rundfunk, Deutsche Welle, Sender Freies Berlin, SWR and NDR, and a european concert tour 'Rising Star' to the Vienna Musikverein, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Athens Megaron, Brussels, Stockholm and Cologne. more ->

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