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” University 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, Mandy Fredrich, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Nadja Michael, Serena Saenz, Alfredo Daza, Lena Belkina, Victoria Randem, Elena Maximova, Julia Novikova, Pavol Breslik, Slavka Zamečnikova, Marina Prudenskaya, Evelin Novak ormRoman Trekel.

His intensive concert activity has lead him to the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, the Musikverein Vienna, the State Opera Unter den Linden, Deutsche Oper and Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie in Brussels, the Grand Theatre de Geneve, the Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg, the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam and the Stadt Casino Basel, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Sociedad Filarmonica de Bilbao as well as to Dresden, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, 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 Verao Classico in Lisbon and the chamber music festival Intonations in Berlin, at the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival and the festivals in Baden-Baden, Dresden, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Taggenbrunn. 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 University of Music Berlin since 2006 and at the School of Music & Drama in Rostock since 2021.