Mattijs van de Woerd studied at the Rotterdam and Amsterdam conservatoires. He was awarded the Vriendenkrans, the Concertgebouw Prize and first prize in the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in London. Mattijs van de Woerd has performed with the Nationale Reisopera, La Monnaie Brussels, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Netherlands Bach Society, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, collaborating with conductors such as Jaap van Zweden, Herbert Blomstedt, Ed Spanjaard, Daniel Reuss, Tan Dun and Reinbert de Leeuw. On the operatic stage he has sung roles including Papageno The Magic Flute, title role Don Giovanni, Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Sid Albert Herring, Le Gendarme Les mamelles de Tirésias, Adario Les Indes galantes, Jonathan Siren Song and Pausole Les aventures du Roi Pausole. As a song recitalist he recently toured China with the pianist Shuann Chai. Mattijs van de Woerd is a member of the light music collective Frommermann.