Baritone Tim Winkelhöfer, born in 1999, began his musical training at the age of seven with piano lessons. Alongside this, he gained his first vocal experience singing in various choirs, which eventually led to several years of vocal training with the boys’ choir Collegium Iuvenum Stuttgart. From 2010 onwards, he received continuous private voice lessons at the Bauland Music School in his hometown of Osterburken, Baden-Württemberg, while also continuing his piano studies.
Over the course of his musical development, Tim Winkelhöfer has gathered extensive experience in a wide range of oratorio, musical theatre, operetta, and opera productions. He has performed roles such as Papageno in The Magic Flute, Adonis in Venus and Adonis, Antonio in Le nozze di Figaro, and Benoît, Alcindoro, and Parpignol in La Bohème.
His engagements have taken him to venues such as the Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl, where he made his debut in 2023 as Schneck in the operetta Der Vogelhändler. In the summer of the following year, he returned to the festival to perform the roles of Puffke and Bogumil in Der Bettelstudent.
Tim Winkelhöfer is a prizewinner in numerous competitions. Among his achievements are several first prizes in various vocal and piano categories at the national competition Jugend musiziert. He received a special prize at the 4th Gustav Mahler Song Competition held by the Rochna Foundation in Hamburg and was awarded third prize at the 2022 Lions Music Prize in District 111-N.
From 2016 to 2018, he was a junior student of Prof. Bernhard Jaeger-Böhm at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In 2018, he began his studies at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg in the class of Prof. Geert Smits, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in the summer of 2022. He then continued his education at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, completing his master’s degree in 2024 with top honors under Prof. Andreas Macco.