After graduation and civil service in Lüneburg followed the guitar studies at the University of Music Lübeck. There, in 1987, Matthias Rother received the music teacher diploma. In 1990 he graduated with a degree in art.
Matthias Rother recorded his own compositions on his two previously released solo CDs “The Inner Song” and “Seven Halcyon Days”. Sheet music has been published by publishers Burger & Müller, Vogt & Fritz and Galima.
He has always been interested in solo guitar and chamber music. From 2004-2012 Matthias Rother worked successfully with the mezzo-soprano Nele Gramß. Her recitals with Italian, Spanish and German programs were highly praised by the concert audience and the press.
In the season 2011/12 Matthias Rother took over the guitar part in Rossini's “Il Barbiere de Sevigla” at the Landestheater Coburg. 2004-2011 he was a member of the committee PML (Private Music Teacher) of the Tonkünstlerverband Bayern e.V. Matthias Rother has been a sought-after expert for many years in the competition “Jugend musiziert”.
(Rainer Stelle)