Matthias Winckhler, a bass-baritone born in Munich in 1990, began his musical training at the Bavarian Opera Academy and went on to study singing at the Mozarteum University Salzburg taught by Andreas Macco, as well as Wolfgang Holzmair’s lied interpretation class. He also actively participated in masterclasses given by Matthias Goerne, Markus Hinterhäuser, Graham Johnson, Christa Ludwig, Malcolm Martineau, Bejun Mehta, Michele Pertusi, Rudolf Piernay, Peter Schreier, Bo Skovhus, and Breda Zakotnik.

The Walter & Charlotte Hamel Foundation and the Walter Kaminsky Foundation have awarded him scholarships. In 2017, he was awarded the Trude Eipperle Rieger Advancement Prize. At the 2014 Salzburg International Mozart Competition, he won First Prize as well as the Mozarteum Foundation Special Award. In addition, he received honours at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2012, the National Junior Singing Competition in Berlin in 2010, and the Schubert Lied Duo Competition in Dortmund in 2014.

Matthias Winckhler regularly performs with conductors such as Giovanni Antonini, Karl-Friedrich Beringer, Fabio Bonizzoni, Reinhard Goebel, Hans Graf, Matthew Halls, Pablo Heras-Casado, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Günter Jena, Gianandrea Noseda, Ralf Otto, Vasily Petrenko, Ivan Repušić, Helmuth Rilling, Jordi Savall, Andreas Spering, Christoph Spering, Masaaki Suzuki, and Jos van Veldhoven. He has toured with orchestras and ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Camerata Salzburg, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, the Bach Collegium Japan and the Oslo Philharmonic. As a guest concert performer, he has been invited to perform at numerous renowned festivals, including the Salzburg Festival, Kissingen Summer Festival, Leipzig Bach Festival, Thuringian Bach Weeks, and Salzburg Mozart Week.