The German pianist Matthias Samuil is one of the most sought-after song accompanists of the younger generation. He studied piano at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in his native city of Berlin with Annerose Schmidt and Hella Walter-Arndt, and attended master classes with Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Brigitte Engerer and Graham Johnson.
In addition, he devoted himself to song accompaniment and chamber music, pursuing further studies with Wolfram Rieger, Walter Olbertz and Semion Skigin, and received valuable inspiration from his work with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Krassimira Stoyanova, Deborah Polaski and Johan Botha.
Matthias Samuil regularly performs alongside eminent singers such as Olga Peretyatko, Dmytro Popov, Anna Samuil, Michaela Kaune, Lena Belkina, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Nadja Michael, Serena Sáenz, Mandy Fredrich, Elena Maximova, Alfredo Daza, Julia Novikova, Slávka Zámečníková, Marina Prudenskaya, Pavol Breslik, Evelin Novak or Roman Trekel.
His intensive concert activity has lead him to the Berlin Philharmonie, the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, the Palau de les Arts Valencia, the Musikverein Vienna, the State Opera Unter den Linden and Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam and the Stadtcasino Basel, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Händel-Halle in Halle as well as to Dresden, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Paris, Prague, Bratislava, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and other cities in Europe and the USA.
Furthermore, he has been a guest at the festivals in Verbier, Aix-en- Provence and Sion, at the Verão Clássico in Lisbon and the chamber music festival »intonations« in Berlin, at the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival and the festivals in Baden-Baden, Dresden and Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. In 2014 he made his debut with Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major KV 414 in the Great Hall of the Konzerthaus Berlin.
Numerous radio and television broadcasts as well as CD productions and streaming media display his artistic work. In addition to his concert activities, Matthias Samuil gives master classes in Lied and opera interpretation and has been teaching at the "Hanns Eisler" School of Music Berlin since 2006 and at the School of Music & Drama in Rostock since 2021.
