He was born in 1989 in Santiago de Chile. He started playing the French horn at the age of 18. He graduated from the Unversidad Catolica de Chile and then attended masterclasses and privacy lessons with Ignacio Garcia in Berlin.
In 2008, Matias won solo horn player Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile, where he worked until 2014. In the same year he entered the orchestra academy of Staatskapelle Berlin. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Chile and Europe.
Since 2016 he has been a principal horn player in the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.