At the age of six, Matteo Ivan Rašić joined the Wiltener Sängerknaben, where he received his first singing lessons.
Matteo Ivan Rašić
Tenor
As a boy soprano, he performed as a soloist in numerous concerts and at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, e.g. in the opera The Cunning Little Vixen , and interpreted songs and arias from Der Vogelhändler and La traviata on tours in China with the Wiltener Sängerknaben.
From 2018 to 2023, the tenor studied singing at the Tyrolean State Conservatory in cooperation with the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and, since 2019, instrumental and vocal pedagogy with Johannes Stecher at the Mozarteum Salzburg.
Engagements brought him to the Salzburg Festival (Young Singers Project), the Operettensommer Kufstein and the Croatian Opera Academy, followed by participation in the International Opera Workshop Waiblingen. His oratorio repertoire includes Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and St. Matthew Passion , Handel’s Messiah , Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s 95th Psalm and Haydn’s The Seasons and The Creation .