Matthew Anderson
Matthew Anderson has been praised for the warm tenor voice and polished musicality he brings to oratorio, opera, and musical theater. An accomplished interpreter of the music of Bach, Mr. Anderson sings regularly as a soloist in Boston’s renowned Emmanuel Music Bach Cantata Series. He has appeared at the Aldeburgh Festival as a soloist in the Saint Matthew Passion and spent several summers at the Carmel Bach Festival, where he was featured as a 2010 Virginia Best Adams Fellow and a 2011 festival soloist in the Saint John Passion. Mr. Anderson is a two-time prizewinner in the American Bach Society Competition and winner of the second prize in the Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition, in which he also won the Westenberg Award for 18th Century Stylistic Interpretation.
Recent and upcoming performances from Mr. Anderson’s varied repertoire include Stravinsky’s Renard at Tanglewood and the Mostly Mozart Festival with the Mark Morris Dance Group; Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Boston Baroque; Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem with the Handel and Haydn Society; John Harbison’s Winter’s Tale with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Haydn’s Creation with Emmanuel Music; Bach’s Saint John Passion (Evangelist) with Emmanuel Music, at Princeton University, Boston University, and the University of Chicago; several works by Benjamin Britten (Serenade, Saint Nicolas, and Cantata Misericordium); John Austin’s new opera Heloise and Abelard at Harvard University; Mozart’s Requiem with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall; and Handel’s Messiah with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and at Carnegie Hall. He has sung with conductors Masaaki Suzuki, Paul Goodwin, Harry Christophers, Martin Pearlman, John Harbison, Craig Smith, and Laurence Cummings and appeared as soloist with groups such as the Handel and Haydn Society, Cantata Singers, Musicians of the Old Post Road, Back Bay Chorale, and the Handel Choir of Baltimore. Also recognized as a gifted performer of the American songbook, Mr. Anderson has won high praise for his performances with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops in Carousel (as Mr. Snow), A Richard Rogers Celebration, and An Evening of Cole Porter.
Mr. Anderson spent two seasons as a vocal fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and was a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow with Emmanuel Music. He also trained in the James Collier Apprentice Artist Program at Des Moines Metro Opera, the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and the Cincinnati Opera Resident Ensemble. He was a finalist in the Liederkranz Art Song Competition. Mr. Anderson is a Kansas native and resides in Boston, where he studied Classics at Harvard and voice at the New England Conservatory.
Recent and upcoming performances from Mr. Anderson’s varied repertoire include Stravinsky’s Renard at Tanglewood and the Mostly Mozart Festival with the Mark Morris Dance Group; Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Boston Baroque; Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem with the Handel and Haydn Society; John Harbison’s Winter’s Tale with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Haydn’s Creation with Emmanuel Music; Bach’s Saint John Passion (Evangelist) with Emmanuel Music, at Princeton University, Boston University, and the University of Chicago; several works by Benjamin Britten (Serenade, Saint Nicolas, and Cantata Misericordium); John Austin’s new opera Heloise and Abelard at Harvard University; Mozart’s Requiem with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall; and Handel’s Messiah with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and at Carnegie Hall. He has sung with conductors Masaaki Suzuki, Paul Goodwin, Harry Christophers, Martin Pearlman, John Harbison, Craig Smith, and Laurence Cummings and appeared as soloist with groups such as the Handel and Haydn Society, Cantata Singers, Musicians of the Old Post Road, Back Bay Chorale, and the Handel Choir of Baltimore. Also recognized as a gifted performer of the American songbook, Mr. Anderson has won high praise for his performances with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops in Carousel (as Mr. Snow), A Richard Rogers Celebration, and An Evening of Cole Porter.
Mr. Anderson spent two seasons as a vocal fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and was a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow with Emmanuel Music. He also trained in the James Collier Apprentice Artist Program at Des Moines Metro Opera, the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and the Cincinnati Opera Resident Ensemble. He was a finalist in the Liederkranz Art Song Competition. Mr. Anderson is a Kansas native and resides in Boston, where he studied Classics at Harvard and voice at the New England Conservatory.
