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The French bass-baritone, Matthieu Heim, studied with Howard Crook at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris-CNR (2005-2008), obtaining concert diploma. He subsequently obtained his Master of Arts degree degree Specialized in Opera Music Performance at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern (2010-2012), where he continued his vocal studies with Professors Hans Peter Blochwitz and Barbara Locher. He is a laureate of the Fondation Royaumont (2017).
From 2010 to 2012, as a member of the Swiss Opera Studio, Matthieu Heim sang Masetto in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Calchas in La Belle Hélène and Slender in Salieri’s Falstaff. Then Leonardo García-Alarcón invited him to sing Rossini’s La Cambiale di matrimonio, which was performed throughout Europe in partnership with the European Baroque Academy of Ambronay and the Vocal Academy of Aix-en-Provence.
As a soloist, his discography includes Lully’s operas Atys and Amadis (La Simphonie du Marais), Rameau’s Naïs (La Simphonie du Marais), Grétry’s Andromaque (Le Concert Spirituel), the Requiem pour Claude de Lorraine, by Pierre Cléreau (Entheos), Psalm by Thierry Machuel (Le Jeune Choeur de Paris), the Stabat Mater by Esteves (Ensemble William Byrd) and the CD produced for the 20th anniversary of the Choir of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Recently Matthieu sang Raphaël in Haydn’s Creation as well as Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande, Pandolphe in La Servante maîtresse by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and the First Priest in W.A. Mozart's The Magic Flute. At the beginning of 2017, he reprised The Muphti in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, a show staged by Denis Podlydès in which he also took part in 2015 at the New Centre for Performing Arts Pekin and at Hong Kong’s “French May”. He is also a member of Akadêmia Ensemble (Director: Françoise Lasserre; since October 2015). He currently lives in Paris, France |
