Matthias Klosinski

Matthias Klosinski is the founder and artistic director of the chamber choir Ensemble Horizons. He began his musical career with the Stuttgart Hymnus Boys’ Choir and received extensive vocal training alongside violin and piano lessons. He then pursued intensive conducting studies with Winfried Toll and Wolfgang Schäfer, as well as numerous courses in orchestral and choral conducting. He held musical assistantships with boys’ choirs, professional choirs, and various orchestras He was a scholarship recipient of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) and the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation.

For over 20 years, Matthias Klosinski has sung as a tenor and countertenor with professional choirs and ensembles, including Chorwerk Ruhr, Schola Heidelberg, the Choral Soloists of the Komische Oper Berlin, Vocalconsort Berlin, and the Zurich Sing-Akademie. He gained formative influences through collaborations with renowned ensembles such as the Bamberg Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic, Concerto Köln, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, and the Vienna Philharmonic, under the batons of conductors including Herbert Blomstedt, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Bernard Haitink, René Jacobs, Paavo Järvi, Ton Koopman, Kurt Masur, Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano, Sir Roger Norrington, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Sir Simon Rattle.

In addition to founding Ensemble Horizons, Matthias Klosinski founded the men’s ensemble cantus x in 2016 and has been its artistic director since then. In 2025, he served as a juror for the Women Composers’ Competition Females Featured 2.

Picture: Christian Palm