Prof. Matthias Kowalczyk, born in Bochum in 1988, received his first trumpet lessons at the age of 6 and was already a young student at the age of 15, first at the Robert Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf, then he transferred to the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt in the class of Prof. Klaus Schuhwerk.

Since 2010 Matthias Kowalczyk has been engaged as principal trumpet in the “Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra” as well as in the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. He regularly makes guest appearances with renowned orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian State Orchestra of the Munich State Opera, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Hamburg, the Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln and the HR Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt.

As a soloist he has already performed with renowned German orchestras such as the “Rundfunkorchester München”, the “Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester”, as well as the “Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz”, in which he was also a scholarship holder in the 2009/2010 season.

In 2023 he was appointed honorary professor at the Mainz University of Music.