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Mathias Hedegaard

    tenor

    Mathias Hedegaard (tenor) studied with Kirsten Buhl at the Royal Danish Opera Academy in Copenhagen, gra duating in 2007. He made his debut at the Royal Theatre in 2006 as Gastone in "La traviata" and has since appeared there in the title-role in "Orfeo." Mathias Hedegaard has been a soloist with most of the Danish symphony orchestras, Concerto Copenhagen and orchestras in Sweden and Germany, and has worked with conductors such as Adam Fischer, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Christoph Eberle and Roy Goodman. He is also in demand as a Lieder singer and has given much acclaimed recitals throughout Denmark. Mathias Hedegaard's recordings include two Dacapo discs featuring songs by C.E.F. Weyse and Danish serenades and romances with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra under Adam Fischer. He received the Gladsaxe Music Prize in 2006, the Axel Schiøtz Prize the same year and the Artist's Prize of the Danish Music Reviewers' Club in 2007.

    • Poul Schierbeck

      Fête galante

      A true operatic feast: Schierbeck’s Fete galante from 1931 is lyrical and warm, glitteringly orchestrated and has Denmark’s best singers in the main roles

    • W.A. Mozart

      Idomeneo, re di Creta

      Adam Fischer’s sparkling Idomeneo includes the original ballet music in the complete recording of Mozart’s opera seria

    • C.E.F. Weyse

      The Key Masterpieces

      The 3rd issue in Dacapo’s Perspectives series fully portrays this ingenious composer of the Danish Golden Age

    • Peter Heise, C.E.F. Weyse, P.E. Lange-Müller

      Kærlighedssange

      Love songs by three masters of Danish Romanticism performed by Mathias Hedegaard

    • Carl Nielsen

      Cantatas

      First recordings of newly unveiled and festive works by the great Danish composer

    • Carl Nielsen, C.E.F. Weyse, J.P.E. Hartmann, P.E. Lange-Müller, F.L.Ae. Kunzen

      Serenades and Romances

      Smiles and longings of a summer night embodied by the tenor Mathias Hedegaard

    • C.E.F. Weyse

      Morning and Evening Songs

      The greatest in the smallest – an imperishable treasure in Danish music