Matthias Rein

After studying piano with Prof. Alexandr Satz in Graz and Claudio Martinez Mehner in Madrid, Matthias Rein returned to Germany in 2001. Since then he has been a lecturer in accompaniment and song interpretation at the University of Music and Dance Cologne/Aachen.

In 2005 he was awarded as best accompanist at the “Euriade Vocaal Concours” in Kerkrade (NL) and launched his career as a ...

After studying piano with Prof. Alexandr Satz in Graz and Claudio Martinez Mehner in Madrid, Matthias Rein returned to Germany in 2001. Since then he has been a lecturer in accompaniment and song interpretation at the University of Music and Dance Cologne/Aachen.

In 2005 he was awarded as best accompanist at the “Euriade Vocaal Concours” in Kerkrade (NL) and launched his career as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician.

Concert tours as a soloist have taken him to Russia and Spain and as an accompanist and singer coach he has been invited to master classes in Austria and Italy several times.

Matthias Rein is a regular guest at the Dutch chamber music association “Valerius Ensemble” and the chamber concerts of the Symphony Orchestra Aachen. He also accompanied auditions with the Orchestra of the Beethovenhall Bonn and the Symphony Orchestra Aachen.

In 2010, his CD with piano works by Francis Poulenc and Jean Françaix was released and was highly praised by the specialist press. A CD of the Symphony Orchestra Aachen with works by Rudi Stephan and George Butterworth, in which Mathias Rein played the piano part of “Music for 7 Stringed Instruments”, was released in autumn 2014 by Coviello Classics.

At the University of Music and Dance Cologne, Matthias Rein initiated numerous concerts outside of the existing event series. In 2009 he played all sonatas by Francis Poulenc with students from the Wuppertal and Aachen campuses as part of the lecture series “La cité des dames” with the project “O Tuneful Voice – Love from the Perspective of Women”. In 2016, he dealt with the interaction between text and music in the art song in a lecture at the prologue to the “Lange Klaviernacht” in Cologne.

At the International Music Competition Cologne 2017, Matthias Rein was a permanent accompanist in the vocal division, as he had been in 2011 and 2014.

For the 150th birthday of Paul Dukas in 2015, he played a tour in several German cities at the invitation of the Institut Français, performing piano music by the French composer.

In 2022, Rein could be seen in the role of the pianist "Manny Weinstock" in the play "Masterclass" by Terrence McNally, performing in 43 performances at the Grenzlandtheater Aachen.

His extensive repertoire ranges from Bach and Scarlatti to contemporaries and includes not only major works of the piano literature but also little performed works.

His second solo CD, released in February 2018 by Spektral Records, features the piano cycle “Goyescas” by the Spanish composer Enrique Granados.

Since 2019, he has served as an artistic advisor for the Society for Contemporary Music in Aachen.


Classes in stimulating environments can have the same effect as grandma's cheesecake: the memories of them last a lifetime.
Matthias Rein, Germany Correpetitor

Matthias Rein

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