The young German baritone studied school music and trumpet in Stuttgart followed by voice studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Ian Kennedy, Paula Anglin and Mark Packwood, where he graduated with distinction. He continued his voice studies at the Conservatoire Franz Liszt in Weimar with Michael Rhodes, Mario Hoff and Ulrike Fuhrmann.

During the 2009/10 Season, Florian Götz was a member of the Opera Studio Thuringia. He took part in master classes with Gregory Lamar, Kurt Widmer, Malcolm Martinu, Brigitte Fassbaender, Claudia Eder, Christian Curnyn and Graham Johnson.

And he for instance was a prize-winner of the International Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Competition.

His first operatic engagements, still as a student, led him to the National Theater Weimar, Staatstheater Meiningen, Eisenach Theatre, Erfurt Theatre, Nordhausen Theatre as well as to the Luxembourg Opera Studio.

Since 2010/11 Florian Götz has been a member of the Erfurt Theatre’s ensemble, where he performed roles such as Belcore/ L´elisir d´amore, Schaunard/ La Bohème, Dr. Falke/Die Fledermaus (The Bat), Sir William/Richard Lionheart and Taylor in the world premiere of the opera Der leuchtende Fluss (A Kind of Yellow) by Johanna Doderer.

Roles in the 2011/12 Season include Ottokar/ Der Freischütz and Jupiter/ Orpheus in the Underworld.

Guest-engagements led him to various prestigious festivals such as Glyndebourne Festival / GSMD, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Bayreuth Baroque Festival, Festwochen Herrenhausen, Fränkischer Sommer (Musica Frankonia), Heidenheim Opera Festival, Halle Handel Festival and Rheingau Musik Festival. In October 2010 Florian appeared in the leading role of Gildo alongside Dorothee Mields and Kobie van Rensburg in a concert performance of A. Scarlatti’s opera Penelope la Casta at Rheingau Musik Festival and at the WDR broadcasting studio in Cologne with the ensemble Lautten Compagney under Wolfgang Katschner. The Cologne performance was recorded for the first time by the WDR for Sony/BMG. In 2011 the young baritone performed Argante in Handel´s opera Rinaldo at the Halle Handel Festival as well as at the Rheingau Musik Festival again with the Lautten Compagney. He appeared as Papageno in The Magic Flute at the Erfurter Domfestpiele to great acclaim and sang the part of Nardo in a concert performance of Anfossi´s opera La finta giardiniera with L´arte del mondo (WDR recording, CD for Sony). In 2011/12 he guests at Darmstadt State Theatre in Carl Orff’s opera Der Mond, and tours France with the renowned ensemble Le Poème Harmonique under Vincent Dumestre performing the role of Artabano in Pagliardi´s opera Caligula at noted venues such as Opéra Bastille in Paris.

The young baritone has worked under noted conductors such as Sir Collin Davies, Lukas Beikircher, Antony Bramall, Wolfgang Katschner, Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Gudni Emilsson, Carlos Dominguez-Nieto, Nicolas Milton, Walter Gugerbauer and with directors such as John Dew, Tatjana Gürbaca, Michael Hampe, Dominique Horwitz, Stephen Langridge, Guy Montavon, Bernd Mottl and Bruno Berger-Gorski.

In the concert field, Florian is mainly focusing on works by Bach, Telemann, Haydn and Mendelssohn, and has been engaged as lied and oratorio singer at home and abroad. The baritone for instance was a soloist in the first recording of Telemann´s St. John Passion (1733) at the Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage, and sang Bach’s Mass in B minor under Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller.

Further concerts in 2011 included: Bach´s St. John Passion (Arias, Pilatus) with the ensemble La Partita in Zurich, Switzerland; Carmina Burana at the Württembergische Philharmonie in Heilbronn as well as a concert and first CD-recording of Telemann’s St. Matthew Passion (1730) at the Telemann Konzerthalle Magdeburg, which was transmitted Europe-wide by MDR Figaro.

Projects in 2012 include: Telemann’s St. Matthew Passion (1750) at the Magdeburger Telemann Festtage, Jedermann Monologe by Frank Martin with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Bach´s St. John Passion under the baton of Stefan Mai, Artabano in Caligula delirante in Paris, Argante in Handel´s opera Rinaldo at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall as well as a concert at the Göttingen International Handel Festival 2012.

Last update May 2012